Maynard P. Maidman
| Degrees: | A.B. in ancient
history, Columbia University, 1966 Ph.D. (with distinction) in Oriental Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1976 |
| Current Position: | Full Professor, Department
of History |
| Recent Publications: | “Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Meet Newton, Darwin and Wellhausen,” Biblical Archaeology Review, 32/3 (May/June 2006), 58-64. “A Stray Nuzi Text from Belgium,” in If a Man Builds a Joyful House: Assyriological Studies in Honor of Erle Verdun Leichty, ed. Ann K. Guinan et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp. 243-246. “JEN 799: The Text Edition,” (D.I. Owen Festschrift), in press. “Peace and War at Nuzi: A Prosopographical Foray” (I. Eph`al Festschrift), in press. Books: The Nuzi Texts of the Oriental Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2005 Articles: “Historiographical Reflections on Israel’s Origins: The Rise and Fall of the Patriarchal Age,” in Hayim and Miriam Tadmor Volume (= Eretz Israel: Archaeological, Historical and Geographical Studies, vol. 27), ed. Israel Eph`al, Amnon Ben-Tor, and Peter Machinist (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, etc., 2003), pp. 120*-128*. “The British Museum Nuzi Texts,”
Journal of the American Oriental “Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Meet Newton, Darwin and the Spade,” Biblical Archaeology Review, in press. Editorship: Cuneiform Monographs, E.J. Brill, 2001-2006
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| Courses taught recently: | AS/HIST 2110 The Ancient Near East
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| Research Interests: | --decipherment and
analysis of Akkadian language documents from second-millennium-
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| Awards/Grants: | Dean of Art’s Award for Outstanding Research, York University, 2006. |


