Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Michael Jursa

T: +43-1-4277-43413

Discipline: Ancient Near Eastern Philology and Near Eastern Archaeology

Winter term 2024

141001 VO OR-1 VO Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies

141004 VO Socio-economic and cultural longue-durée phenomena in the Middle East and North Africa

141049 VO STEOP: Introduction to Babylonian I

141063 VO Lecture series: "Epic"

141088 VO Ancient Near Eastern History - Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture I

141193 SE Philological seminar

141312 VO Cultural and Economic Geography of the Near East and North Africa

141389 VO Near Eastern Archeology II - Near Eastern Reliefs and Sculpture

420006 SE New Perspectives on working with manuscript-transmitted texts - Basic Methods and Interdisciplinary Approaches

Summer term 2024

141001 VO STEOP: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies

141032 SE Philological Seminar

141047 VO Religious history of the Middle East prior to the advent of Islam

141048 UE Introduction to Sumerian

141097 VO Introduction to Babylonian II

141136 VO Introduction to Sumerian - To be completed together with UE 141048

420012 SE EurAsian Transformations Doctoral Seminar - New Perspectives in the Philological, Historical and Cultural Studies of EuraAsia: Basic Methods and Interdisciplinary Approaches

Winter term 2023

141001 VO OR-1 VO Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies

141004 VO Socio-economic and cultural longue-durée phenomena in the Middle East and North Africa

141032 SE Akkadian Seminar - Philologisches Seminar Akkadistisches Seminar

141049 VO STEOP: Introduction to Babylonian I

141063 VO Social, Economic and Legal History of Mesopotamia

141111 PS Babylonian III and methodology - Old Babylonian Letters

141193 SE Philological seminar - Sumerian Seminar

141312 VO Cultural and Economic Geography of the Near East and North Africa

Jursa, M. (Accepted/In press). Modelling the growth of a bird flock in Eanna. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires: NABU, 2024(1).

Jursa, M. (2024). Names of Officials ('Beamtennamen'). In C. Waerzeggers, & M. Gross (Eds.), Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE) (pp. 81-92). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009291071

Jursa, M., & Cauchi, R. (Accepted/In press). City, Temple and Palace Gates in Iron Age Babylonia. In L. Cousin, L. Quillien, & M. Ramez (Eds.), Material Culture of Babylonia and Beyond: Craft, Religion and Daily Life Peeters Publishers.

Jursa, M. (Accepted/In press). Consecrating Priests for Ištar. Kaskal: rivista di storia, ambienti e culture del Vicino Oriente antico, 20.

Jursa, M. (2023). The Neo-Babylonian Empire. In K. Radner, N. Möller, & D. Potts (Eds.), The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume V: The Age of Persia (Vol. V, pp. 91-173). Oxford University Press.

Jursa, M., & Sandowicz, M. (2023). 'We shall hear their case.’ Neo-Babylonian letters from judges. In L’empreinte des empires au Proche-Orient ancien: Volume d’hommage offert à Francis Joannès (pp. 232-251 ). Archaeopress. https://doi.org/10.32028/9781803274331

Jursa, M. (2022). Nabopolassar auditing Eanna’s practice of disbursing barley to prebendary bakers. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires: NABU, 2022(2), 165-168. Article 74. https://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/NABU-2022-2-def-indexe.pdf

Jursa, M. (2022). Standards, Metrology, and Politics in Babylonia in the Imperial Age. Archiv für Orientforschung: internationale Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft vom Vorderen Orient, 55, 77-85. https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:2058251

Jursa, M. (2021). Babylonian Sources. In B. Jacobs, & R. Rollinger (Eds.), A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire I (pp. 101-116). WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119071860

Jursa, M. (2021). Diplomatics, Prosopography, and Possibly Politics: the Transition from the ‘Early’ Ebabbar Archive to the Main Archive. Archiv für Orientforschung: internationale Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft vom Vorderen Orient, 54, 46-52. https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:2058249

Jursa, M. (2021). Gift, bribe and the remuneration of officials in Late Babylonian sources. In U. Gabbay, & S. Gordin (Eds.), Individuals and Institutions in the Ancient Near East: A Tribute to Ran Zadok (pp. 146-159). Walter de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514661

Jursa, M., & Tost, S. (2021). Greek and Roman slaving in comparative ancient perspective: the state and dependent labour. In S. Hodkinson, M. Kleijwegt, & K. Vlassopoulos (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199575251.013.21

Jursa, M. (2021). The Arshama corpus through the lens of Babylonian epistolography. In Aršāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context, Volume III Oxford University Press.

Debourse, C., & Jursa, M. (2020). Late Babylonian Priestly Literature from Babylon. In P. Dubovksy, & F. Giuntoli (Eds.), Stones, Tablets, and Scrolls: Periods of the Formation of the Bible (pp. 253-281). Mohr Siebeck.

Jursa, M. (2020). Agriculture in Bronze Age Mesopotamia. In D. Hollander, & T. Howe (Eds.), A Companion to Ancient Agriculture: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World (pp. 151-172). WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118970959

Jursa, M., & Zadok, R. (2020). Judeans and Other Westsemites: another view from the Babylonian Countryside. Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel, 9(1), 20-40. https://doi.org/10.1628/hebai-2020-0004

Jursa, M. (2020). Review of: Johannes Haubold – John Steele – Kathryn Stevens (Hgg.), Keeping Watch in Babylon. The Astronomical Diaries in Context, Leiden – Boston (Brill). Klio: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, 102(1), 335-339. https://doi.org/10.1515/klio-2020-0017

Jursa, M. (2020). Wooing the Victor with Words: Babylonian Priestly Literature as a Response to the Macedonian Conquest. In K. Trampedach, & A. Meeus (Eds.), The Legitimation of Conquest. Monarchical Representation and the Art of Government in the Empire of Alexander the Great (pp. 166-177). Franz Steiner Verlag.

Jursa, M., & Gordin, S. (2019). Editors’ Introduction. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 19(1-2), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1163/15692124-12341300

Debourse, C., & Jursa, M. (2019). Priestly Resistance and Royal Penitence: A New Reading of the Amil-Marduk Epic (BM 34113). Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 109, 171-181.

Michael Jursa
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Discipline: Ancient Near Eastern Philology and Near Eastern Archaeology

Research interests

Ancient Near Eastern studies, in particular Babylonian social and economic history and the history of mentalities

Curriculum vitae

Oct 1990–May 1991 Research Assistant (half-time) at the Institut für Orientalistik, Vienna University.

Jun 1991–Jul 1991 University Assistant (half-time) at the Institute.

Aug 1991–Sep 2000 University Assistant (full time) at the Institute.

1 Oct 2000 Associate Professor.

Oct 2002–Sep 2008 On leave to conduct research for the START Project.

Oct 2008- Full professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna.

Qualifications

Venia docendi Ancient Near Eastern and Semitic studies

Award Date: 14 Mar 2000

Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Dr. phil., University of Vienna

Award Date: 12 Oct 1994

Ancient Near Eastern Studies, MA, University of Vienna

Award Date: 1 Apr 1991

Awards

May 2017 Fellow (“Wirkliches Mitglied”) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

11/2015 Rudolf-Meimberg Prize 2015 (Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur, Mainz)

May 2013 Corresponding Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

1/2012 Visiting Professor at the Collège de France, Paris

14 Dec 2007 Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ “Junge Kurie”

2002 Awarded a START Prize by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for a project on “The Economic History of Babylonia in the First Millennium BC”.(1.2 mio EUR)

2002 APART grant (Austrian Academy of Sciences; not accepted as not compatible with START Prize).

2002 Henry Frankfort Fellowship awarded by the Warburg Institute, London (not accepted as not compatible with START Prize).

2001 Grant from the Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung der Stadt Wien

1991 Würdigungspreis des Bundesministers für Wissenschaft und Forschung.

Administrative duties

2011/3-2016/9 Director, Department of Near Eastern Studies

2016/10- Vice-Director, Department of Near Eastern Studies

2016/10-2020/9 Vice-Dean, Faculty of Philology and Cultural Studies

Textual Variants in Manuscripts of Babylonian Literary Texts from the Hellenistic Period: Two Case Studies

Nicla De Zorzi (Invited speaker) & Michael Jursa (Invited speaker)

3 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science