Roslyn, New York
Roslyn ( ) is a village in the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. It is the Greater Roslyn area's anchor community. The population was 2,770 at the 2010 census.
History
Ros ...
) is an archeologist and academic. He specialises in the
ancient Near East
The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast Turkey, southwest Iran and northeastern Syria), ancient Egypt, ancient Iran ( Elam, ...
Brandeis University
, mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts"
, established =
, type = Private research university
, accreditation = NECHE
, president = Ronald D. Liebowitz
, ...
. He completed his Ph.D. thesis (this later leading to the work ''Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography'') at
Birmingham University
, mottoeng = Through efforts to heights
, established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...
under the supervision of
W. G. Lambert
Wilfred George Lambert FBA (26 February 1926 – 9 November 2011) was a historian and archaeologist, a specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology.
Early life
Lambert was born in Birmingham, and, having won a scholarship, he was edu ...
.
Horowitz lectures at the Rothberg School for Overseas Students in the Department of Assyriology.
Prof. Horowitz is leading a team making available in publication the decipherment of a law code fragment (18th-17th century BCE), the first found in Israel that shows features similar to the law code of Hammurabi. (From a website showing Copyright 2008 - 2011 AFHU )
Publications
His published works based on Sumerian and Akkadian texts written in cuneiform, these containing writings which in some way consider the structure of the Cosmos, are considered authoritative.
Books
*with Rita Watson, ''Writing science before the Greeks: a naturalistic analysis of the Babylonian astronomical treatise MUL.APIN'' (2011)
* ''Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography''. Winona Lake, ID: Eisenbrauns,
* ''The Astrolabes and Related Texts: Mesopotamian Astronomy Before 1000 B.C.'' Vienna: , Beiheft (supplement series), in preparation (as of...?)
*with Takayoshi Oshima, ''Cuneiform in Canaan: Cuneiform Sources from the Land of Israel in Ancient Times'', the Israel Exploration Society Jerusalem, 2006.
*with P. Watson, ''A Catalogue of Cuneiform Tablets in the Birmingham City Museum'' (Volume 2) 1993; (Volume 1) 1986.
Articles
''The Shofar and the Ancient Near East'' (Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem exhibition, September 2011)
* with Takayoshi Oshima and Avraham Winitzer, ''Hazor 17'', the forthcoming IEJ, in press
* with Takayoshi Oshima, ''Hazor: a cuneiform city in Canaan: a retrospective and look forward'' in ''6 ICAANE'' (2010)(6th International Congress of archeology in the Ancient Near East) ''Hazor 16'', the forthcoming IEJ, in press, ''New Light on an Old Find from Hazor'', in M. Cogan and D. Kahn eds., ''Treasures on Camels' Humps, Historical and Literary Studies from the Ancient Near East'' Presented to Israel Eph'al, Jerusalem, 2008, pp. 99–103 ","Hazor 15: ''Letter Fragment from Hazor'', IEJ 57/1 (2007), pp. 34–41",
*with Takayoshi Oshima and Siegfried Kreuzer, Die Keilschrifttexte von Taanach/ Tell Tacannek', in ibid., pp. 85–99,
* with Takayoshi Oshima, ''The Taanach Cuneiform Tablets, A Retrospective'', in Siegfried Kreuzer ed., Taanach/Tell Tacannek: 100 Jahre Forschungen zur Archäologie, zur Geschichte, zu den Fundobjekten und zu den Keilschrifttexten, (Wiener Alltestamentliche Studien, Bd. 5), Frankfurt am Main, 2006, pp. 77–84,''New Discovery on an Old Finding'', in Qadmoniyot vol. 38/ 129 (2005), (in Hebrew), pp. 13–14", ''Cuneiform Tablets from Canaan in the Arkeologji Müzesi in Istanbul'', Colloquium Anatolicum, (Institutum Turcicum Scientiae Antiquitatis)", ''Two More Cuneiform Finds from Hazor'', IEJ 52 (2002), pp. 179-186",
''A Kettle Drum ritual during Iyar-Seleucid Era 85'' (March 2001) NABU 1991-80,''The Amarna Age: Inscribed Clay Cylinder from Beth-Shean''(1996),
''Computed Tomography (CT) Imaging of Sealed Clay Cuneiform Tablets'' (in Hebrew). HaTebah Archaeologia WeMedeah 3 (1995) 8-12
*with Takayoshi Oshima and Seth Sanders, ''A Bibliographical List of Cuneiform Inscriptions from Canaan, Palestine/Philistia, and The Land of Israel'',
JAOS
The ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' is a quarterly academic journal published by the American Oriental Society since 1843.
* with S. Paul, ''Two Proposed Janus Parallelisms in Akkadian Literature.'' N.A.B.U. (1995) 11-12;
''Two New Ziqpu-Star Texts.'' Journal of Cuneiform Studies 43 (1994) 89-98; ''A Join to Enuma Anu Enlil 50''. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 43 (1994) 127-129; ''Moab and Edom in the Sargon Geography.'' Israel Exploration Journal 43 (1993) 151-156; "''A Parallel to Shamash Hymn 11-12 and the Melammu of the Sun''." N.A.B.U. (1993) 54-55; ''Mesopotamian Accounts of Creation.'' Encyclopedia of Cosmology. Ed. N. Hetherington (Garland Press, 1993) 387-397;
* with V. Hurowitz, ''Urim and Thummim in Light of a Psephomancy Ritual from Assur'' (LKA 137). Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 21 (1992) 95-115;
* with A. Shaffer, "''An Administrative Tablet from Hazor: A Preliminary Edition''." Israel Exploration Journal 42 (1992) 21-33;
* with A. Shaffer, "''A Fragment of a Letter from Hazor.''"
Israel Exploration Journal
The ''Israel Exploration Journal'' is a biannual academic journal which has been published by the Israel Exploration Society since 1950. It primarily covers research in archaeology, but also history and geography relating to Israel and the surrou ...
42 (1992) 165-167;
"''Two Abnu-Sikinsu Fragments''." Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 82 (1992) 112-121; "''A Kettle-Drum Ritual during Iyar Seleucid Era 85''." N.A.B.U. (1991) 52-53; "''The Reverse of the Neo-Assyrian Planisphere CT 33 11''." Grazer Morgenlandische Studien 3 (1991) 149-159; "''Antiochus I, Esagil, and a Celebration of the Ritual for Renovation of Temples''." Revue d'assyriologie 85 (1991) 75-77;
* with P. Watson,''Further Notes on Birmingham Cuneiform Tablets volume I'' Acta Sumerologica 13 (1991) 409-417;
''Two Notes on Etana's Flight to Heaven''. Orientalia 59 (1990) 511-517; ''The Isles of the Nations: Genesis 10:5 and Babylonian Geography.'' Studies in the Pentateuch (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum XLI. Ed. J. A. Emerton
(1990) 35-43; ''More Writings for Ursa Major with Determinative gis.'' N.A.B.U. (1990) 2-3; ''Two Mul-Apin Fragments''. Archiv für Orientforschung 36/37 (1989/90) 116-117; ''A Middle-Assyrian Exemplar of Urra''. Archiv für Orientforschung 35 (1989) 161-178; ''An Akkadian Name for Ursa-Minor: mar.gid.da.an.na = eriqqi samami''. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 79 (1989) 242-245; ''The Babylonian Map of the World.'' Iraq 47 (1988) 147-165;
* with D. Geva, ''Antiochus IV in Life and Death: The Babylonian
Astronomical Diaries
The Babylonian astronomical diaries are a collection of Babylonian cuneiform texts that contain systematic records of astronomical observations and political events as well as predictions, based on astronomical observations. They also include oth ...
.'' Journal of the American Oriental Society (in press);
''Birmingham Astronomical Cuneiform Texts.'' Festschrift for W. G. Lambert (in press);
''Halley's Comet and Judean Revolts Revisited.''
Catholic Biblical Quarterly
The ''Catholic Biblical Quarterly'' is a refereed peer-reviewed theology journal published by the Catholic Biblical Association of America (CBA) (CBA) in January, April, July, and October. It was established in 1939 and its circulation in 2010 w ...
(in press); ''Unrest in Canaan: An Amarna Period on a Letter from Bet Shean'' (in Hebrew). Kadmoniot (in press).
See also
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City of David (Silwan)
Wadi Hilweh is a neighborhood in the Palestinian Arab village of Silwan, intertwined with an Israeli settlement.
The Silwan area of East Jerusalem was annexed by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War and 1980 Jerusalem Law, an action not recog ...
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Babylonian astronomy
Babylonian astronomy was the study or recording of celestial objects during the early history of Mesopotamia.
Babylonian astronomy seemed to have focused on a select group of stars and constellations known as Ziqpu stars. These constellations ...