May 2022
Vol. 10, No. 5
What’s in a Name? Warriors and Warrior Burials in the Near East
By Chris Stantis
Middle Bronze Age “warrior burials” are found in many parts of the Near East and Egypt. But a new study at Sidon shows that no one buried with weapons was actually a “warrior.” Read More
(Hi)stories Set in Plaster: Ancient Western Asian Reproductions and the Berlin State Museums
By Pınar Durgun
For 200 years plaster copies of ancient objects have been created for education, preservation, collaboration, and public access. The pandemic has given them new relevance. Read More
The Bible in Arabic
By Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
The earliest Arabic reference to the Bible is pre-Islamic, but by the 9th century CE Christian communities were producing translations of Old and New Testament books. Read More
Goddesses of Myth and Cultural Memory
By Emilie Kutash
Goddesses figure in Hermeticism, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Kabbalah, Medieval allegory, and in our time, feminist and psychoanalytic literature. But these derive from Greek interpretations of older ancestors. Read More
