Publications by Michael Jursa
List of Publications
All Publications by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Jursa
2024
Jursa, M. (2024). ‘… if he is without blemish in body and limbs …’: Babylonian Priests. In Z. Niederreiter (Ed.), Mesopotamia, Kingdom of Gods and Demons (pp. 242-247). Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
Jursa, M. (2024). From Uruk to Vitruvius and back. In K. Ruffing, & B. Truschnegg (Eds.), Navigating the Worlds of History: Studies in Honor of Robert Rollinger on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday (pp. 645-652). Harrassowitz Verlag.
Jursa, M. (2024). Modelling the growth of a bird flock in Eanna. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires: NABU, 2024(1), 46-49. Article 29. https://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/NABU-2024-1.pdf
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. (2024). ‘The God Šamaš and Adad showed him how to observe oil on water …’: Babylonian Science. In Z. Niederreiter (Ed.), Mesopotamia, Kingdom of Gods and Demons (pp. 266-271). Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
2023
Jursa, M., & Cauchi, R. (2023). 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 (pp. 255-284). Peeters Publishers. https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042948983&series_number_str=319
Jursa, M. (2023). Consecrating Priests for Ištar. Kaskal: rivista di storia, ambienti e culture del Vicino Oriente antico, 20, 281-289.
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
2022
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
2021
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.
2020
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