ELI TADMOR
Education
2024
Yale University
2023
Yale University
MPhil in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
2018
Tel Aviv University
BA in Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
(Magna Cum Laude) and General History
Publications
Books
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Erra: An Ancient Myth in a New Translation
Yale University Press, New Haven / London (under contract).
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​Articles​​​
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“Cultural Cannibalism and the Assyrian-Babylonian Conflict”
Proceedings of the Workshops “Intertextuality in Cuneiform Literature” . . . Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Leiden 2023 and Helsinki 2024, eds. S. Wisnom, N. Artimov, and J. Bach. Zaphon, Münster:(volume under preparation, article submitted and accepted by editors).
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“How Išum Got His Name”
Journal of Cuneiform Studies (forthcoming).
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Kaskal Nouva serie 2 (2025), 1–14.
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Journal of the American Oriental Society 145/2 (2025), 369–379.
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"More than a Single Truth: Polyvalence in Gilgamesh’s Dreams of the Meteorite and the Axe"
Kaskal 20 (2023), 71–82.
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"Erudite Savagery: Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal’s Account of the Siege of Babylon,"
Journal of Near Eastern Studies 82/1 (2023) 43–58.
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Notes
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“Winnowing Down the Syntactical Possibilities of a Key Assertion in the Marduk Ordeal,”
Mémoires de NABU (forthcoming).
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“On the Logic of Name Substitution in the Assyrian Version of Enuma Elish,”
Mémoires de NABU (forthcoming).
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“The Shared Use of the Address ‘You, Man!’ in Erra and Ezekiel,”
Mémoires de NABU 2025/1, 49–50.
Book Reviews​​
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Review of Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Epic of Creation (eds. J. Haubold, S. Helle, E. Jiménez, and S. Wisnom),
Journal of Near Eastern Studies 84/2 (2025), 385–389.
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Journal of the American Oriental Society 145/3 (2025), 648–651.
Conference Talks
“A Baby on Fire: How Išum Got His Name”
70th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (July 7–11, 2025)
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“The God of Violence in Mortal Guise: On Erra’s Transformation in Erra and Išum IV 3”
235th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society (April 9–12, 2025)​
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"Who is King of the World? On the Identity of šar gimir dadmÄ“ in Erra I 1"
234th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society (March 22–25, 2024).
"Cultural Cannibalism: Intertextuality as a Weapon of War"
68th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (July 17–20, 2023).
"More Than a Single Truth: Gilgamesh’s Dreams of Meteorite and the Axe"
233rd Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society (March 10–13, 2023).
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"Erudite Savagery: An Instance of Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal's Inscriptions"
232nd Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society (March 18–21, 2022).
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"A Wrathful and Deluded God: The Erra Epic and the Mind"
231st Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society (March 11–18, 2021).
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"Erudite Savagery: An Instance of Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal's Inscriptions"
2nd Graduate Symposium in Ancient Near Eastern Studies (March 6–7, 2020).
Visiting lectures
“The All Too Human Adventures of Erra and Išum”
Yale Assyriological Seminar (March 31st, 2025)
Outreach
Legacy Media
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"Go out to Battle, O Valiant Erra" (Hebrew Translation of Erra I 6–63),
Ho! (!הו) 15–13 ,(2022) 22.
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Once upon a Time in the East (היה היה במזרח)
Columns about the ancient Near East appearing on the website of Haaretz,
Subjects:
The Babylonian Flood story and AI (March 2023)
Abortion and infanticide in ancient Mesopotamia (July 2022)
The Dialogue of Pessimism (June 2022)
Ludlul bēl nēmeqi (May 2022)
Erra and the invasion of Ukraine (March 2022)
Inanna/Ištar and gender (February 2022)
Plagues in the ancient Near East (December 2021)​
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Social Media
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“The Erra Epic, the Biblical Flood, and the Sons of God ft. Eli Tadmor”
What Your Pastor Didn’t Tell You, June 2nd, 2023
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“Ezekiel Thinking Like a Babylonian ft. Eli Tadmor”
What Your Pastor Didn’t Tell You, May 27th, 2023
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“Gender in Ancient Mesopotamia, with Eli Tadmor!”
Digital Hammurabi, March 12th, 2022
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“Ezekiel and Babylon! Eli Tadmor investigates”
Digital Hammurabi, November 28th, 2021
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“Ancient Plagues with Eli Tadmor”
Digital Hammurabi, September 25, 2021
Teaching Experience
Yale University, New Haven
TF in Modern Hebrew (4th- and 5th-semester levels)​, Spring 2024
Guest lecturer in Advanced Akkadian: Akkadian Literary Texts, Spring 2024
TF in Modern Hebrew (3rd- and 5th-semester levels), Fall 2023
TF in Modern Hebrew (2nd-semester level), Fall 2022 ​
TF in Modern Hebrew (1st-semester level), Spring 2021​
Instructor of record in Elementary Akkadian (2nd semester level), Spring 2021
Instructor of record in Elementary Akkadian (1st semester level), Fall 2020
New Lehrhaus, Berkeley​
In the Shadow of Empires: Assyria-Babylonia, Egypt and Biblical Israel, Spring 2025 (Three sessions, remote. Instructor Session 1, Co-instructor Session 3)
Linguistic Proficiency
Modern
Hebrew
English
German
French
Native
Fluent
Proficient
Academic reading
Ancient
Akkadian
Sumerian
Biblical Hebrew