Ilan Peled
Biographic Data
| ID | 1440889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilan Peled |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilan |
| FAMILY NAME | Peled |
| SIGNATURE | PELED I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2335-662X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Living with the Law
Journal Article Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt. By Oded Zinger Get access Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt. By Oded Zinger. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 255pp. $59.95. Ilan Peled Ilan Peled Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal…
The Deviant Villain
This article combines theoretical and historical approaches for studying notions of heroism and villainy in ancient Mesopotamia, as reflected in royal propaganda and rhetoric. It focuses on the different manners in which Mesopotamian kings of the second and first millennia BCE constructed the image of their rivals as villains who deviate from the standard characteristics of the heroic ruler. The theoretical framework of the article is based on he…
Kula'ūtam Epēšum
Several terms encountered in Mesopotamian sources stand for titles of persons who served either in the palace or in the temple and displayed ambiguous gender qualities. Some of these persons, albeit being males, were characterized by feminine traits and were therefore considered by their society to be effeminate. One of the terms related to these gender-ambiguous persons was kulu'u, whose exact meaning has never been fully determined, mainly beca…
A deo lex? Law and Religion in Ancient Near Eastern Legislation
The ancient Near East is widely regarded as the “cradle of Western civilisation” and the birthplace of writing. As such, it was home to the earliest documented compendia we sometimes call “law collections”, and to some of the earliest records of institutionalised religion in human history. In the ancient Near East, these two major systems, official law and organised religion, did not usually intermingle. When they did, they compensated for one an…
The Laws of Delict in the Hebrew Bible and Their Ancient Near Eastern Forerunners
This article compares the ancient Near Eastern and biblical laws pertaining to delict. Since I offer an in-depth study elsewhere (Peled, forthcoming) of delict-related felonies attested in the different ancient Near Eastern law collections, the present article only touches upon this issue in brief, while focusing on the pertinent biblical laws. The main questions addressed here therefore relate to the manner in which biblical law treated differen…
Delict in the Law Compendia of Mesopotamia and Hatti
This article surveys the statutes referring to delict in the ancient Near Eastern law collections. It presents an introductory discussion of delict and of law compendia from Mesopotamia and Hatti, and explains the complexities involved in analysing these sources. Five categories of delict are then studied from qualitative and quantitative points of view: theft, damage, homicide, injury, and perjury. Each category is surveyed and analysed separate…
Cultural Transformations from Mesopotamia to Hatti? The Case of the Gala
This article surveys the textual attestations of the cultic performer designated by the logogram GALA in Hittite texts. This logogram, which originated in Mesopotamia, was apparently used for the Hittite word šaḥtarili, but the nature of the activities performed by the Mesopotamian and Hittite cultic practitioners designated in this manner was not identical. This should be assessed against the background of the nature of Mesopotamian-Hittite conn…
Visualizing Masculinities
This article examines the gender image of the Mesopotamian cult attendant known as gala (Sumerian) / kalû (Akkadian) against the background of the theory of hegemonic masculinity, putting an emphasis on visual representations as sources of information. The gala/kalû was a performer in funerals, and later a professional lamenter in the cult of Inanna/Ištar. His gender identity has long been considered to have possessed ambiguous elements: effemina…
A New Manuscript of the Lament for Eridu
The Sumerian "city lament" known by its modern title as the Lament over Eridu cannot be fully reconstructed at the present time. Only eight manuscripts of the poem have been indentified until now and none covers the whole composition. Even when combined together, these eight manuscripts do not allow for a full reconstrucion of the lament and several gaps in the plot still exist. A recently identified ninth manuscript of the composition closes one…
Crime andSexualOffense inHatti
This article offers an introductory overview of the topic of crime and punishment in the Hittite kingdom. I offer general background to the topic and focus on one case-study: crimes related to sexual behavior. Even within this narrower topic, the discussion is limited to one main example, incest prohibitions and the regulation of kin relations, which have not previously been studied as a distinct topic
Assinnu and kurgarrû Revisited
Expelling the Demon of Effeminacy
The ritual of Anniwiyani drew the attention of scholars for more than eighty years, since its earliest publications. As its aim is not self-evident, various speculations and attempts were made during the years in order to try and comprehend it. The conventional explanations focused on the masculine-feminine dichotomy characterizing the ritual, as the background for its performance. The current paper sets forth a new interpretation, according to w…
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Expelling the Demon of Effeminacy
The ritual of Anniwiyani drew the attention of scholars for more than eighty years, since its earliest publications. As its aim is not self-evident, various speculations and attempts were made during the years in order to try and comprehend it. The conventional explanations focused on the masculine-feminine dichotomy characterizing the ritual, as the background for its performance. The current paper sets forth a new interpretation, according to w…
Assinnu and kurgarrû Revisited
A New Manuscript of the Lament for Eridu
The Sumerian "city lament" known by its modern title as the Lament over Eridu cannot be fully reconstructed at the present time. Only eight manuscripts of the poem have been indentified until now and none covers the whole composition. Even when combined together, these eight manuscripts do not allow for a full reconstrucion of the lament and several gaps in the plot still exist. A recently identified ninth manuscript of the composition closes one…
Crime andSexualOffense inHatti
This article offers an introductory overview of the topic of crime and punishment in the Hittite kingdom. I offer general background to the topic and focus on one case-study: crimes related to sexual behavior. Even within this narrower topic, the discussion is limited to one main example, incest prohibitions and the regulation of kin relations, which have not previously been studied as a distinct topic
Visualizing Masculinities
This article examines the gender image of the Mesopotamian cult attendant known as gala (Sumerian) / kalû (Akkadian) against the background of the theory of hegemonic masculinity, putting an emphasis on visual representations as sources of information. The gala/kalû was a performer in funerals, and later a professional lamenter in the cult of Inanna/Ištar. His gender identity has long been considered to have possessed ambiguous elements: effemina…
Cultural Transformations from Mesopotamia to Hatti? The Case of the Gala
This article surveys the textual attestations of the cultic performer designated by the logogram GALA in Hittite texts. This logogram, which originated in Mesopotamia, was apparently used for the Hittite word šaḥtarili, but the nature of the activities performed by the Mesopotamian and Hittite cultic practitioners designated in this manner was not identical. This should be assessed against the background of the nature of Mesopotamian-Hittite conn…
The Laws of Delict in the Hebrew Bible and Their Ancient Near Eastern Forerunners
This article compares the ancient Near Eastern and biblical laws pertaining to delict. Since I offer an in-depth study elsewhere (Peled, forthcoming) of delict-related felonies attested in the different ancient Near Eastern law collections, the present article only touches upon this issue in brief, while focusing on the pertinent biblical laws. The main questions addressed here therefore relate to the manner in which biblical law treated differen…
Delict in the Law Compendia of Mesopotamia and Hatti
This article surveys the statutes referring to delict in the ancient Near Eastern law collections. It presents an introductory discussion of delict and of law compendia from Mesopotamia and Hatti, and explains the complexities involved in analysing these sources. Five categories of delict are then studied from qualitative and quantitative points of view: theft, damage, homicide, injury, and perjury. Each category is surveyed and analysed separate…
A deo lex? Law and Religion in Ancient Near Eastern Legislation
The ancient Near East is widely regarded as the “cradle of Western civilisation” and the birthplace of writing. As such, it was home to the earliest documented compendia we sometimes call “law collections”, and to some of the earliest records of institutionalised religion in human history. In the ancient Near East, these two major systems, official law and organised religion, did not usually intermingle. When they did, they compensated for one an…
Kula'ūtam Epēšum
Several terms encountered in Mesopotamian sources stand for titles of persons who served either in the palace or in the temple and displayed ambiguous gender qualities. Some of these persons, albeit being males, were characterized by feminine traits and were therefore considered by their society to be effeminate. One of the terms related to these gender-ambiguous persons was kulu'u, whose exact meaning has never been fully determined, mainly beca…
The Deviant Villain
This article combines theoretical and historical approaches for studying notions of heroism and villainy in ancient Mesopotamia, as reflected in royal propaganda and rhetoric. It focuses on the different manners in which Mesopotamian kings of the second and first millennia BCE constructed the image of their rivals as villains who deviate from the standard characteristics of the heroic ruler. The theoretical framework of the article is based on he…
Living with the Law
Journal Article Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt. By Oded Zinger Get access Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt. By Oded Zinger. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 255pp. $59.95. Ilan Peled Ilan Peled Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal…
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