Marc Van de Mieroop (b. 22 October 1956) is a noted

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and

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who has been full professor of

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ern history at

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since 1996.

Biography

Born in

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to a prominent

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family who paternally descend from Jan I van Cuijk. He received his

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form the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, later attending

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, where he received his

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in 1980 and his

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in 1983. He taught at Yale and

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, 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

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, 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 Period'' (1987), *'' Sumerian Administrative Documents from the Reigns of

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and

Shu-Ilishu Shu-Ilishu (Akkadian: ''Šu-ilišu'';Inscribed d''šu-i-li-šu''. ''fl.'' ''c.'' 1920 BC — ''c.'' 1911 BC by the short chronology, or ''c.'' 1984 BC — ''c.'' 1975 BC by the middle chronology) was the 2nd ruler of the dynasty of Isin. He reig ...

'' (1987) *''Society and Enterprise in Old Babylonian Ur'' (1992) *''The Ancient Mesopotamian City'' (1997 and 1999)

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, Oxford. *''

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Texts and the Writing of History'' (1999) *''King

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of Babylon'' (2005) Blackwell, Oxford. *''The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of

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'' (2007)

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, Oxford. *with Bonnie Smith, Richard von Glahn, and

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, ''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

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