Marc Van de Mieroop (b. 22 October 1956) is a noted
Belgian Assyriologist and
Egyptologist who has been full professor of
Ancient Near Eastern history at
Columbia University since 1996.
Biography
Born in
Belgium to a prominent
Flemish family who paternally descend from
Jan I van Cuijk. He received his
bachelor's degree form the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, l ...
, later attending
Yale University, where he received his
master's degree in 1980 and his
doctoral degree in 1983. He taught at Yale and
Oxford, later becoming a full professor at Columbia in 1996. His son Kenan Van de Mieroop is also a noted professor. Professor Van de Mieroop specializes the history of the Ancient Near East from the beginning of writing to the age of
Alexander the Great, with a particular interest in the socio-economic and political history of the Ancient Near East. He has written extensively on historical methodology and was a Senior Fellow at the
Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in 2011, and a
Guggenheim Fellow in 2013. In 2016 he held a fellowship from the
ACLS for a project entitled, "Babylonian Cosmopolitanism and the Birth of Greek and Hebrew Literate Traditions."
Publications
In addition to his articles and translations, his book publications include:
*''Crafts in the Early
Isin
Isin (, modern Arabic: Ishan al-Bahriyat) is an archaeological site in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq. Excavations have shown that it was an important city-state in the past.
History of archaeological research
Ishan al-Bahriyat was visited b ...
Period'' (1987),
*''
Sumer
Sumer () is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC. It is one of the cradles of c ...
ian Administrative Documents from the Reigns of
Ishbi-Erra and
Shu-Ilishu'' (1987)
*''Society and Enterprise in Old Babylonian
Ur'' (1992)
*''The Ancient
Mesopotamian
Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the F ...
City'' (1997 and 1999)
Oxford University Press, Oxford.
*''
Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History'' (1999)
*''King
Hammurabi of
Babylon
''Bābili(m)''
* sux, 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠
* arc, 𐡁𐡁𐡋 ''Bāḇel''
* syc, ܒܒܠ ''Bāḇel''
* grc-gre, Βαβυλών ''Babylṓn''
* he, בָּבֶל ''Bāvel''
* peo, 𐎲𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎽𐎢 ''Bābiru''
* elx, 𒀸𒁀𒉿𒇷 ''Babi ...
'' (2005) Blackwell, Oxford.
*''The
Eastern Mediterranean
Eastern Mediterranean is a loose definition of the eastern approximate half, or third, of the Mediterranean Sea, often defined as the countries around the Levantine Sea.
It typically embraces all of that sea's coastal zones, referring to communi ...
in the Age of
Ramesses II'' (2007)
Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
*with
Bonnie Smith, Richard von Glahn, and
Kris Lane
Kris Eugene Lane (born April 7, 1967) is a Canadian–American Fulbright scholar, researcher, professor, and author. His areas of academic teaching and research focus on colonial Latin American history. He has written and edited several books ...
, ''Crossroads and Cultures. A History of the World's Peoples'' (2012), Bedford-St. Martin,
*''A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000–323 BC'' (2015) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
*''Philosophy before the Greeks. The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia'' (2015), Princeton University Press.
*''A History of
Ancient Egypt'' (2021) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
*''The Practice of Ancient Near Eastern History - Opera Minora'' (2022) (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 400), Ugarit Verlag: Münster.
*''Before and After Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires'' (2023) Oxford University Press, New York
References
See also
Columbia University: Marc Van de MieroopArchaeology Magazine InterviewPodcast InterviewPhilosophy InterviewOn Bronze Age Collapse, BBC, The Forum
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1958 births
Living people
20th-century Belgian historians
Columbia University faculty
21st-century Belgian historians