Researching gender in the Ancient Near East
It’s been a while, but three articles or scholarly work I’ve been involved with have been published! The first I want to highlight should be seen as a pair, and are part of a long project started within ANEE I think in 2019. Led by Melanie Wasmuth, it’s ambitious goal was to compare kingship and …
Continue reading “New Article(s)! On ancient Near Eastern queenship and a review”
Over the Summer I participated in the Ancient Language Processing workshop in Varna. The workshop focuses on using computational linguistics to explore ancient language corpora. I wrote a paper with Aleksi Sahala where we used word embeddings to find words in a Neo-Assyrian corpus that had a similar usage profile to words relating to the …
Continue reading “New Article! Body Words with Emotional Meanings”
I just had wonderful news that my article “Age and Masculinities during the Neo-Assyrian Period” has been published in the excellent Journal of Cuneiform Studies! You can see find it on their website. In it, I give a brief overview of the sociological theories behind ageing, and how ancient Near Eastern scholars have studied age …
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I received wonderful news that my article “The Masculinities of the Neo-Assyrian “Queens of the Arabs” has been published in the Hebrew Studies journal. You can see the contents of the special edition here at NAPH’s website. This article means a lot to me, as it was the reason for my interest in masculinities studies. …
Ellie Bennett