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Graduate Program in History

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:

Joint Expedition with the Iraq Museum at Nuzi,VIII: The Remaining Major Texts in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2003

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
Society, 124 (2004), 305-314. [review article]

“Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Meet Newton, Darwin and the Spade,” Biblical Archaeology Review, in press.

Editorship:

Cuneiform Monographs, E.J. Brill, 2001-2006

 

Papers / Lectures:

Courses taught recently:

AS/HIST 2110 The Ancient Near East
AS/HIST 3100 Mesopotamian History
AS/HIST 3110 History of Ancient Israel
AS/HIST 4100 Selected Problems in Israelite History

 

Research Interests:

--decipherment and analysis of Akkadian language documents from second-millennium-
B.C. Mesopotamia.
--the reconstruction of the economic and social history of Mesopotamia in the second
millennium B.C.
--organization and edition of epigraphic sources for Israelite history
--Israelite history (ca. 1200-586 B.C.) based on contemporary epigraphic documents

 

Awards/Grants:    

Dean of Art’s Award for Outstanding Research, York University, 2006.