果冻影院

Ben Dewar is Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Ancient Middle Eastern History. He is an Assyriologist and Historian of the cuneiform-writing cultures of ancient Mesopotamia with a particular interest in the political, intellectual, and literary history of the late 2nd and early 1st Millennia BC. His research focuses on the intersection of religion, morality, and identity with political structures and the built and natural environment in Mesopotamian literature and historiography. He is also interested in the role that imaginative geography and worldview play in determining the structure and ordering principles of cuneiform texts, and in narratological approaches to ancient texts.

Major publications

• 鈥楰ings and their Gods: Representations of Urartian Royal Ideology and Religion in Sargon II鈥檚 Letter to the God Ashur鈥�, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 82 (2023), 327鈥�339.
• 鈥楬istorical Explanation in the Babylonian Chronicles鈥�, in G. Konstantopoulos and S. Helle (eds.), The Shape of Stories: Narrative Structures in Cuneiform Cultures [Cuneiform Monographs]. Brill (2023), 211鈥�233.
• 鈥楪odless People and Sunless Skies: Deviant Space in the Tukulti-Ninurta and Nebuchadnezzar Bilinguals鈥�, Avar 1 (2022), 113鈥�138.
• 鈥楾he Burning of Captives in the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions and Early Neo-Assyrian Conceptions of the Other鈥�, Studia Orientalia Electronica 9 (2021), 67鈥�81.
• 鈥楿s against Them: Ideological and Psychological Aspects of Ashurnasirpal II鈥檚 Campaign against Assyrian Rebels in 岣猘lzilu岣玜鈥�, Iraq 82 (2020), 114鈥�124.
• 鈥楢 Time and a Place: A Unique Approach to Chronological and Geographical Order in a Royal Inscription of Adad-n膩r膩r墨 II鈥�, State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 25 (2019), 1鈥�10.
• 鈥楽itting on Top of the World: The Structure and Narrative of the Throne-Base Inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III鈥�, Kaskal 14 (2017), 61鈥�76.
• 鈥楻ebellion, Sargon II鈥檚 鈥淧unishment鈥� and the Death of A拧拧ur-n膩din-拧umi in the Inscriptions of Sennacherib鈥�, Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History 3 (2017), 25鈥�38.

Teaching

• Writing History (first year undergraduate core course)
• Making History (first year undergraduate core course)
• Approaching History (first year undergraduate core course)
• Ancient Middle Eastern Religion (advanced seminar)