Gad Barnea
@gbarnea
PhD FRAS; History of the Iranian Age of Empires; Yahwism; Epigraphy; Semitic+Iranian linguistics; Zoroastrianism. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111018638
I have just learned of a very nice blog post (in Portuguese) on my lecture at Curitiba last April regarding the origins of the psḥ as read through ostraca from Elephantine. Thank you Matheus Treuk! "UMA NOVA LEITURA SOBRE AS ORIGENS DO PÊSSACH (psḥ) E A “PÁSCOA JUDAICA”: A…
So sad to learn of Russell Gmirkin's passing today - a great gentleman and scholar!.. An out-of-the-box thinker and a bright and kind soul. This is a tremendous loss. May his memory be a blessing!..
The main pushback in the youtube comments section to my appearance on @JonesDanny a few months ago was against my claim (said only briefly since this was only a minor ancillary point to main topic of discussion) that we actually do know a great deal about how the Pyramids were…
Open Access! My article "Reading Berlin P. 10679 Inside Out" is finally available in open-access in Tel Aviv (the journal): tandfonline.com/.../10.../0334… This article is a detailed epigraphic analysis and republication of Berlin P. 10679 (TADAE D7.24), which I studied in the…
I am delighted to receive the proofs of my contribution to the upcoming volume edited by Benedikt Hensel and Jordan Davis titled "A Prophet to the Nations: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Jeremiah 46–51," appearing soon at Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. My paper deals…
Farridnejad, Shervin & Touraj Daryaee (eds.). 2024. Sasanian Studies: Late antique Iranian world | Sasanidische Studien: Spätantike iranische Welt. Vol. 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. biblioiranica.info/sasanian-studi…
Zgoll, Annette (2025). Rituale. Schlüssel zur Welt hinter der Keilschrift. Göttinger Beiträge Zum Alten Orient. doi.org/10.17875/gup20…
Happy to announce that the Vol. 3 of our “Sasanian Studies: Late Antique Iranian World / Sasanidische Studien: Spätantike iranische Welt (2024)” will be out soon! Many thanks to my co-editor Prof. @tourajdaryaee and our publisher @harrassowitz_v harrassowitz-verlag.de/Sasanian_Studi…
From our colleagues at IFAO, plates from the pronaos of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera: Le temple de Dendara XV: Planches (Sylvie Cauville, Gaël Pollin, Oussama Bassiouni, Youssreya Hamed) It's a big file at 483MB ifao.egnet.net/publications/c…
Some preliminary reflections on the important research that was recently published on the dating of some Dead Sea Scrolls. Please note that these are just my main preliminary reflections (I also have couple of more minor ones, but the entire research stands or falls on the C14…
I recommend to anyone interested in early 20th century archeology—especially in Egypt—to read Sayce's Reminiscences (London: Macmillan, 1923). In the various passages on the early excavations at Elephantine you can find gems such as:
Happy to be part of this series of public lectures organized by @avi_levkovich on the topic of ״Psychedelics and Rituals in Antiquity״ next month alongside esteemed colleagues. My lecture on 10/7 (in Hebrew) will deal with the "burning bush" pericope in the book of Exodus and…
Delighted to learn that I have been elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.
A photo of a Stela of Seti I (19th dynasty) that I took at the entrance of the Elephantine Museum a couple of years ago. (I don’t think I shared this here before).
The Program for our conference on Mani, the Prophet of Light Nastaran Akhavan Symposium on Ancient Iranian Religions UCI Center for Persian Studies برنامه کنفرانس مانی ما در دانشگاه کالیفرنیا در ارواین با همکاری با دانشنامه ایرانیکا لینک زوم روی برنامه قرار دارد