stratigraphy. The most recent books are Macroeconomics from the Beginning and
Archaeological Stratigraphy: A Near Eastern Approach (both 2003 ); he is currently working
on another volume on ancient economics, as well as collaborative efforts on religion
and chronology.
Joan Goodnick Westenholzholds the posts of Chief Curator of the Bible Lands
Museum Jerusalem and Senior Visiting Associate on the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
Project of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. She has published
extensively on various topics in Babylonian religion and literature as well as on issues
of gender, women and goddesses. Her books include Legends of the Kings of Akkade,
Cuneiform Texts in the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem: The Emar Texts andCuneiform
Texts in the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem: The Old Babylonian Texts.Her present research
is focused on the most archaic lexicographical series and the earliest anatomical lexicon.
Cornelia Wunschis Research Associate at the Department of Languages and Cultures
of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London. She is a specialist in Neo- and Late Babylonian documents and the author
of various works on Neo-Babylonian economy, especially the archives of the Egibi
family.
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