Eli Tadmor is an Assyriologist—a scholar of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians—and specializes in the thematic, structural, and philological analysis of historical and literary texts composed in Akkadian as well as their broader political, religious, intertextual, and social contexts.

His research has led to six articles—four published and two forthcoming—a public-facing blog on ancient Mesopotamia ("Once Upon a Time in the East" / היה היה במזרח), and online appearances. 

He is currently under contract with Yale University Press to write Erra: An Ancient Myth in a New Translation. The book concerns the Erra Epic—a Babylonian poem telling how Erra, a god of war and pestilence, nearly annihilated humanity out of rage on account of them holding him in contempt. Set to contain a new translation of the composition along with essays shedding light on the text and its world, the book aims to bring Erra to a broad public readership for the first time in around two thousand years.

Eli can be reached at eli@tadmor.us