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Dr. Sophie Lafont
Directeur d’études
Section des sciences historiques et philologiques
École Pratique des Hautes ÉtudesJoseph Manning
Associate Professor of Ancient History
Stanford UniversityDr. Ignacio Márquez Rowe
Associate Researcher
Dept. Biblia y Oriente Antiguo
CSIC, MadridJoachim Oelsner
Professor emeritus
University of LeipzigSimo Parpola
Professor of Assyriology
University of HelsinkiBezalel Porten
Professor emeritus
Hebrew University of JerusalemDr. Karen Radner
Institut für Assyriologie und Hethitologie
Ludwig-Maximiliens-Universität, MunichDr. Kathryn Slanski
Kohut Post-doctoral Fellow
Yale UniversityKlaas Veenhof
Professor, Afdeling Oude Nabije Oosten
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