Notes on Contributors
Damien Agut-Labordère is a permanent researcher at the French CNRS team ArScAn based in Nanterre, a lecturer at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, and director of the Achemenet Program (Nanterre). He received his Ph.D. in Paris in 2005 with a dissertation titled “La composition et la transmission des sagesses démotiques” and has published extensively on the social and economic history of Egypt during the first millennium BCE, focusing most closely on the Persian period (526–332 BCE). As a Demotist, he is also involved in several archaeological missions in the Western Desert (Kharga Oasis) in Egypt.
Sonja Ammann is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She directs the research project “Transforming Memories of Collective Violence in the Hebrew Bible” (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation 2019–2023) and has published on the memory of the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem.
Nathan Arrington is associate professor of Classical archaeology and founder of the Program in Archaeology at Princeton University. He has written about the visual culture of military casualties in Classical Athens in a monograph, Ashes, Images, and Memories: The Presence of the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens (Oxford 2015), and in articles published in Hesperia, Classical Antiquity, and Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. He has also published extensively on Greek-Eastern connections, the subject of his monograph, Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World (Princeton 2021). He co-directs the Molyvoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project in northern Greece.
Angelika Berlejung studied Theology and Assyriology in Heidelberg and Munich. She served as Assistant at the Chair of Old Testament in Rostock and Heidelberg (1993–1999) and Professor of Languages and Cultures of Syria and Palestine in Leuven (1999–2004). She has been Professor of History and History of Religion of Israel and its Environment at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Leipzig (since 2004), Extraordinary Professor of Ancient Studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa (since 2009), Visiting Full Professor for Biblical Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel (since 2017), and Full Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (since 2017).
Helge Bezold was a member of the research project “Transforming Memories of Collective Violence in the Hebrew Bible” from 2019 to 2022 and is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Marburg. In 2021, he received his Ph.D. in Basel with a dissertation titled Ester – Eine Gewaltgeschichte. Die Gewaltdarstellungen in der hebräischen und griechischen Esterüberlieferung (Berlin/Boston 2022). His research explores the cultural, historical, and political significance of biblical depictions of collective violence.
Jessica H. Clark is an Associate Professor of Classics at Florida State University. Her main areas of research are Roman military history and historiography, particularly the representation of war and politics, and the transmission of fragmentary literature from the Roman Republic. She is the author of Triumph in Defeat: Military Loss and the Roman Republic (Oxford 2014) and co-editor of Brill’s Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society (Leiden/Boston 2018), as well as articles on Roman history, Latin literature, and women in Roman historical writing.
Izak (Sakkie) Cornelius studied at the Universities of Stellenbosch (D.Litt.) and Tübingen. He is a Professor in the ancient cultures of North Africa and Southwest Asia at Stellenbosch University (South Africa), specializing in material imagery, and a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.
Stephen Germany is a postdoctoral fellow in the research project “Transforming Memories of Collective Violence in the Hebrew Bible” at the University of Basel. His second book, Kingmakers and Kingbreakers: Philistines, Arameans, and Historical Patterning in Samuel–Kings, is planned for publication in late 2023 or early 2024.
Simon Lentzsch studied at the University of Cologne, where he completed his doctorate in ancient history in 2016. In 2019 he published his dissertation under the title “Roma Victa. Von Roms Umgang mit Niederlagen.” From 2013 to 2019, he worked at the Department of Ancient History of the University of Cologne and from 2019 to 2021 at the University of Bochum. Since April 2021, he has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg in the research project “Im Spiegel der Republik. Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia,” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), where he is working on a historical commentary on the Facta et dicta memorabilia. He is also working on the history of Southern France and Massalia, ca. 600–649 BCE.
Antonio Loprieno is Professor of Egyptology and Professor of Institutions at the University of Basel. Besides his expertise in academic administration, he is an internationally recognized Egyptologist who has written extensively on Egyptian philology, history, literature, culture, and religion. Among other studies, he is the author of Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction (Cambridge 1995), La pensée et l’écriture. Pour une lecture sémiotique de la culture égyptienne (Paris 2001), and Non-Verbal Predication in Ancient Egyptian (Berlin 2017; with M. Müller and S. Uljas).
Julia Rhyder is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. She is the author of Centralizing the Cult: The Holiness Legislation in Leviticus 17–26 (Tübingen 2019) and co-editor of Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch: A Systematic and Comparative Approach (University Park PA 2021) and Authorship and the Hebrew Bible (Tübingen 2022). She is the guest editor (with Sonja Ammann) of the thematic issue “Transforming Memories of Collective Violence” in the journal Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel and is currently writing a monograph on festivals and war commemoration in the Bible.
David Yates is an Associate Professor of Classics at Millsaps College. He has written a book on the Persian War tradition in the Classical period titled States of Memory: The Polis, Panhellenism, and the Persian War (Oxford 2019), in addition to articles on various topics in Classical Quarterly, Classical World, Klio, Historia, Teiresias Supplements Online, and Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies. He is currently working on the fragmentary historian Ephorus.