Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires

Activities

Working with Cultural Objects and Manuscripts - building awareness and scholarly accountability in Finland

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

In­vest­ig­at­ing and Poli­cing An­tiquit­ies Traf­fick­ing and For­gery in a Digital Age

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Ancient and Medieval Middle East seminar

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Experiencing Jewish Ritual Baths in Early Roman Palestine

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Ancient Digital Humanities

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

EABS / SBL International Meeting

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Demonstration von Macht oder historisches Interesse? Instrumentalisierung der Antike von der Renaissance bis heute

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Researching Cultural Objects and Manuscripts in a Small Country: The Finnish Experience of Raising Awareness of Provenance, Legality, and Responsible Stewardship

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

The statues of Udjahorresnet as archaeological artefacts

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Imperium as a Context for Defining "Elite": Persians and Yahwistic Socio-economic Structure

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Researching Cultural Objects and Manuscripts in a Small Country: The Finnish Experience of Raising Awareness of Provenance, Legality, and Responsible Stewardship

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Response to Juha Pakkala, Chalenges to Social Scientific Methods

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Persian Imperialism as Context for Defining Judaean “Elites”: The Persians and Yahwistic Socio-Economic Structures

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

ANEE Annual Meeting

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Provenance Research

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Religious Architecture in Ruins? Standing Synagogue Remains in Early Islamic Galilee

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Crossroads III

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

ASOR Annual Meeting 2018

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Minorities in Mesopotamia Workshop

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

The Persian Empire, the Social Sciences, and Ancient Historiography

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Arts (Journal)

Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts

Taxes of God and King? Taxation in Persian Period Judaean Materials

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Altägyptische Reiseliteratur

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

What Would I Like to See Happening in Biblical Studies

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Ancient and Medieval Middle East seminar

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

First ANEE CoE Meeting

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Cultural identity as research approach: conceptualizing the semantic field of ‘othering’

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Altägyptische Reiseliteratur

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Diplomacy in ancient times: the figure of Udjahorresnet

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Collaborating at Home and Abroad: Using Museum Exhibitions to Engage With Local and Refugee Communities

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

ANEE First Centre of Excellence Seminar

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

The Survival of Synagogues in Early Islamic Galilee

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Forum on Concepts and Methods for ANEE (internal)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Challenges to the Historical Critical Method Position Paper

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting 2018

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

The Persian Empire, the Social Sciences, and Ancient Historiography

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Nabonidus and Cyrus: Elite Agency and Imperial Legitimacy

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Anne Katrine Gudme

Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Academic visit at UH

Wouter Henkelman

Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Academic visit at UH

Ancient and Medieval Middle East Seminar

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

The Persian Empire, the Social Sciences, and Ancient Historiography

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Finland in the Global Antiquities Trade: Problems and Prospects

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Demonstration von Macht oder historisches Interesse? Instrumentalisierung der Antike von der Renaissance bis heute

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Spatial Data Analysis in Archaeology: A comparison of two available methods for site location

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Ancient Digital Humanities

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Economics without Society or Politics? The Interrelation of Assumptions Concerning Models in the ANE

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Negotiating authority: The Acceptance of Cambyses as Egyptian Pharaoh as Means of Constructing Elite Identity

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

SSANE Stockholm Seminar

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

The Concepts of ‘Torah’ and ‘the Prophets’: Are They Texts or Something Else?

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage (Journal)

Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts

Pure Stale Water: Reflections on the Materiality of Stepped Pools

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

American Center of Oriental Research

Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution

Imperial Scribes in Marginal Provinces

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Experiencing Jewish Ritual Bathing Practices in Early Roman Palestine

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Study Group in Egyptology

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Same man different hat - same hat different man? Some thoughts on Achaemenid sculpture in the round

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

ANEE Annual Meeting 2019

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Datasets

Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, Korp Version, May 2019

Dataset

Publications

Rainer Kessler, Walter Sommerfeld, and Leslie Tramontini, eds, State Formation and State Decline in the Near and Middle East (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016). [Book review]

Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review (scientific) › Scientific

Poster: Qumran Survey: Reflections on Ethics

Research output: Conference materials › Poster › Research

Mark J. Boda: Exploring Zechariah, Volume 2: The Development and Role of Biblical Traditions in Zechariah. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017. [Book review]

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › Scientific

Hasmonean Memories and Hellenistic Building Traditions: The Appearance and Disappearance of Synagogue Buildings in the Late Second Temple Period

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

Persian Royal–Judaean Elite Negotiations in the early Teispid and Achaemenid Empire: The King’s Acolytes

Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review

Aššur and His Friends: A Statistical Analysis of Neo-Assyrian Texts

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Mapping Political Diversity: Some Thoughts on Devising a Historiographical Map of Seventh-Century BC Egypt

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East

Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or special issue › Scientific › peer-review

It’s the End of the World (As the Persians Know It)? Iranian Influence on Jewish Apocalypticism in Light of the Complete Publication of the DSS

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

Richard E. Payne: A state of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015. [Book review]

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › Scientific

From past to present: building skill transfer in Tajikistan

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

The Invention of the First-Century Synagogue: A Critical Examination of the Archaeological Evidence

Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or special issue › Scientific › peer-review

The Interface of Orality and Writing: Speaking, Seeing, Writing in the Shaping of New Genres by Annette Weissenrieder, Robert B. Coote (eds.). Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2015. [Book review]

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › Scientific

Discussing Ethical Practices in Archaeology: Decolonization, open data, and community interaction in Jordan.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

Water

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › General public

Being Jewish in Galilee, 100–200 CE: An Archaeological Study

Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review

Researching Cultural Objects and Manuscripts in a Small Country: The Finnish Experience of Raising Awareness of Art Crime

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Spatial Data Analysis in Archaeology: A comparison of two available methods for site location

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

Monumentality and Space: Experiencing Synagogue Buildings in Late Second Temple Palestine

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

Projects

Religious Responses to Climate Change in the Southern Levant: Understanding the rise and fall of Jewish ritual purification baths in the Hasmonean-Roman period

Project: University of Helsinki Three-Year Research Project

Team 3: Material Culture and Community Heritage

Project: Research project

Team 2: Social Scientific Theory and Applications

Project: Research project

Team 1: Digital Humanities Approaches

Project: Research project

Press / Media

Tyhjenikö amme?

Press/Media: Press / Media

Juudan kansa kesti Baabelin virtain varsilla

Press/Media: Press / Media