Maya Rinderer, BA MA
Maya Rinderer
Winter term 2024
141226 SE Mesopotamian Literature (Reading of Literary Texts) - SE Philological Accadian Seminar

CV

For my bachelor's degree, I studied Near Eastern Studies at the University of Vienna. I completed my master’s degree in Ancient Near Eastern Philology and Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Vienna in January 2021 with a master’s thesis entitled “The Snake Omens in the Mesopotamian Divinatory Series Šumma ālu (Tablets 22-24).” This master’s thesis was written between 2018 and 2020 as part of the FWF-funded project "Bestiarium Mesopotamicum. Tieromina im Alten Mesopotamien" under the direction of Assoz.-Prof. Nicla De Zorzi, who was also the supervisor of my thesis.
I am currently working on my doctoral thesis with the title "Meaning Construction and Text Development Through Repetition, Parallelism, and Analogy in Mesopotamian Magic Texts" as part of the project “Repetition, Parallelism and Creativity: An Inquiry into the Construction of Meaning in Ancient Mesopotamian Literature and Erudition” (REPAC), directed by Assoz.-Prof. Nicla De Zorzi and funded by the European Research Council (ERC). The project REPAC investigates repetition and parallelism as structuring and meaning-constructing devices in Akkadian literature and scholarly writing, aiming to demonstrate their grounding in a culture-specific “analogical hermeneutics” which pervades the core texts of Ancient Mesopotamian culture. My dissertation, which is part of work package 3, focuses on magic texts, particularly anti-witchcraft compositions, and investigates the use of variant repetition and analogical structuring in these texts.

Crafting the Witch: Figurine Magic and Materiality in Babylonian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals

Maya Rinderer (Speaker)

15 Apr 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Gendering Snakes: Masculinity in the Snake Omens of the Divinatory Series Šumma ālu

Maya Rinderer (Speaker) & Gioele Zisa (Speaker)

12 Apr 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


“Enlil Is My Head”: The Embodied Cosmos in the Babylonian Anti-Witchcraft Ritual Maqlû

Maya Rinderer (Speaker)

27 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Das babylonische Beschwörungsritual Maqlû als Magiediskurs und literarische Darstellung

Maya Rinderer (Speaker)

16 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Symmetry and Asymmetry in Maqlû Incantations

Maya Rinderer (Speaker)

20 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Divine Actors in Babylonian Anti-Witchcraft Incantations

Maya Rinderer (Speaker)

4 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Dumuzi and Daphne: Metamorphosis as Metaphor in Sumerian and Roman Literature

Maya Rinderer (Speaker)

1 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Unglück auf den ersten Blick: Auge und Blick in den Schlangenomina aus dem Antiken Mesopotamien

Maya Rinderer (Speaker)

24 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Bestiarium Mesopotamicum

Maya Rinderer (Speaker) & Saranya Balasubramanian (Speaker)

27 Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


European Researchers' Night 2020 (online): Forschung für uns alle!

Saranya Balasubramanian (Speaker), Maya Rinderer (Speaker) & Nicole Lundeen-Kaulfus (Contributor)

27 Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Department of Near Eastern Studies

Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 2M-O1-08

maya.rinderer@univie.ac.at