Religion and Art

Publications

  1. Edited volume: Reinheid (Purity in the Ancient Near East), thematic issue of Phoenix 48 (2002). Leiden: Ex Oriente Lux.
  2. ‘Reinheid bij de Hettieten’ (Purity in Hittite Society). Phoenix 48/2 (2002), 93-103
  3. ‘KBo 17.17+: Remarks on an Old Hittite Royal Substitution Ritual.’ Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 2 (2002), 61-73
  4. ‘Hattian origins of Hittite religious concepts: the syntax of ‘to drink (to) a deity’ (again) and other phrases.’ Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 8/1 (2008), 67-73
  5. ‘Hittite Iconoclasm. Disconnecting the icon, disempowering the referent’. In Natalie Naomi May (ed.), Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond, OIS 8. Chicago: Oriental Institute 2012, 407-452
  6. ‘A New Join to a Hittite Festival of Thunder: KBo 31.183 + KBo 34.185 + KBo 20.61 (CTH 631)’. N.A.B.U. 2017/2 (juin):105-107
  7. ‘Magic in Hittite Society: for Kings, Queens, and Commoners Alike’. News & Notes Quarterly Newsletter 253 (2023): 20-23
  8. ‘Dynastic, State, and Popular Religion in Hittite Anatolia.’ In Tawny Holm (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Religions in the Ancient Near East. Oxford University Press (in press)

Talks

  1. Exerting power on the crossroads of three cultures: the steward of the king in Luwian, Phoenician and Assyrian society. July 25, 2008. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 54, Würzburg
  2. hbrk bcl or tiwadamis zidis, the steward of the king in Luwian and Phoenician society. February 14, 2009. AOS session People, Power and Politics 2, Midwest AOS/ASOR/SBL/CSBR Annual Meeting 2009, Bourbonnais, February 13-15, 2009
  3. Anatolian Aniconoclasm: not destruction but deactivation. April 9, 2011, OI postdoc conference on Iconoclasm, Chicago
  4. The Development of Hittite Art, Volunteer Day, March 12th, 2018, Oriental Institute, Chicago
  5. Language that points, images that talk. How language and art interact. Volunteer Day, June 15th, 2021, Oriental Institute, Chicago
  6. Hittite High-Literature: Ring-compositions in the myth The Disappearance of Telipinu (CTH 324). December 13, 2021. The 11th International Congress of Hittitology, Hitit Universitesi, Turkey.
  7. The Illuyanka Myth: A Hittite Saturnalia? The 43rd East Coast Indo-European Conference, July 1, 2024, University of Georgia, Athens.
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