Marc Van De Mieroop

Marc Van De Mieroop (born 22 October 1956) is a noted Belgian Assyriologist and Egyptologist who has been full professor of Ancient Near Eastern history at Columbia University since 1996.

Biography

Born in

Van De Mieroop specializes the history of the Ancient Near East from the beginning of writing to the age of Alexander the Great, 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."^[1][2][3] He is a member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Ancient History.^[4]

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 Ishbi-Erra and Shu-Ilishu (1987)
• Society and Enterprise in Old Babylonian Ur (1992)
• The Ancient
  ISBN 978-0-19-815286-6
• Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History (1999)
• King
  ISBN 978-1-4051-2660-1
• The
  ISBN 978-1-4051-6069-8
• with
  ISBN 0-312-57317-0
• A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000–323 BC (2015) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford;
  ISBN 978-1118718162
• Philosophy before the Greeks. The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia (2015), Princeton University Press;
  ISBN 978-0691157184
• A History of
  ISBN 978-1-119-62087-7
• The Practice of Ancient Near Eastern History - Opera Minora (2022) (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 400), Ugarit Verlag: Münster;
  ISBN 978-3-86835-336-5
• Before and After Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (2023) Oxford University Press, New York;
  ISBN 978-0-19-763466-0