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You've just read Avar 4.2, but Avar 5 begins our Rolling Issues! This means we will have your work online first, so you don't have to wait until all articles are compiled to share. We'd love your submissions: avarjournal.com/avar/submiss...

Go read it to find out! avarjournal.com/avar/article... (3/3)

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Ong analyzes a vast number of ethnic terms in the Neo-Babylonian corpus, specifically the attributes ascribed to them, yielding interesting results. (2/3)

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Last but not least in Avar 4.2 is Matthew Ong's article, "Broad-scale Patterns in the Distribution of Ethnic Names in the Neo-Babylonian Oracc Corpus." 🧵(1/3)

Enjoy your Monday read: avarjournal.com/avar/article... (3/3)

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Boyd looks at every mention of a bird in these books of wisdom, revealing diverse uses of the bird that demonstrate a wide range of human and non-human animal relations. (2/3)

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Samuel Boyd's article, the fourth in our recent issue, is called "Birds of a Feather: Animal Criticism, Domestication, and The Use of Bird Imagery and Metaphor in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes." 🧵 (1/3)

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Mulder discusses moving beyond an "ecological imperalist model of the wild needing taming" in analyzing seals that include animal imagery, expanding our imagery beyond the domestic for a larger and more robust imagined social community. (2/3)

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Our third article in the latest issue is by David Mulder, entitled "Temple/Herd: Mesopotamian Visions of Animal Community in the Early Third Millennium BCE." 🧵 (1/3)

Intrigued? Go read! (3/3)
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Porter takes great care to (re)consider the many details on the Mari plaque, considering archeological and cultural contexts but allowing for multiplicity in cosmological meaning. (2/3)

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The second article in our latest issue is called "Tiny Dancers:
An Archaeological View of Hidden Figures on the Mari Plaque," by Anne Porter. 🧵(1/3)

In other words, you should go read this now (3/3): avarjournal.com/avar/article...

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Taggar Cohen's work, which compares Hittite Ritual Texts on warfare/herem, recognizes that the *real* sin of Saul is his failure to inquire before he undertakes the act against Nob in 1 Samuel 21. (2/3)

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It's Monday, and we're featuring the first article in our recently released issue by Ada Taggar Cohen, "Divine Approval and Support of the King Going into War: The Case of King Saul, Biblical and Hittite Descriptions." 🧵(1/3)

We're following up on your weekend homework.

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Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East Vol. 4 No. 2 (2025) avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...
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Closing out Avar 4.2 is "Broad-scale Patterns in the Distribution of Ethnic Names in the Neo-Babylonian Oracc Corpus," authored by Matthew Ong.
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The final article of the special section (not the issue!) is by Samuel Boyd, "Birds of a Feather: Animal Criticism, Domestication, and the Use of Bird Imagery and Metaphor in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes."
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Second in the special section on animals is "Temple/Herd: Mesopotamian Visions of Animal Community in the Early Third Millennium BCE," written by David Mulder.
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But the first article that begins the special section on animals is by Anne Porter, "Tiny Dancers: An Archaeological View of Hidden Figures on the Mari Plaque."
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The first article of this issue is by Ada Taggar Cohen, entitled "Divine Approval and Support of the King Going into War: The Case of King Saul, Biblical and Hittite Descriptions." avarjournal.com/avar/article...