The Temple of Ištar at Old Babylonian Alalakh

Temple Building in Assyria. Evidence from Royal Inscriptions, 2010

My paper will be dedicated to the flows we can observe between the temples and the Old Babylonian practice documents. It will issue a list of legal and administrative documents indicating in one way or another an activity related to the temple. An attempt will be made to discern this activity and understand its nature. This activity is in general economic, social or religious, but we will try to classify it in the private or the public sphere. The idea is to better understand the role of state institutions considered as public and the role of persons acting on their private account. By focusing on their relationship with the temples, we introduce in the equation "private and state" the data "temple" in order to improve our understanding of the Old Babylonian society.

Archéologie islamique, 1992

Study of one of the great palaces of al-Mutawakkil at Samarra, al-Istablat, identified as al-'Arus, circa 852

Contextualizing Jewish Temples, Holtz S and Ganzel T (eds)., 2020

The paper examines concepts of service and duty within Babylonian temples as reflected in the administrative letters from the archive of the Eanna temple in Uruk. It discusses the use of the Babylonian term maṣṣartu (“guard/watch”) in the letters and examines aspects of professional identity and bureaucratic mentality of Neo-Babylonian temple officials. The final section examines persuasion strategies employed by the Neo-Babylonian temple officials, and the implication of such analysis on the professional identity of temple personnel.

Arbela Antiqua: Proceedings of the International Conference held in Erbil (7-10 April 2014) under Zidan Bradosty’s headship: Ancient Arbela–Pre-Islamic History of Erbil: , 2020

Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, 2012

Before proposing a hypothesis about stages in the development of the Jerusalem temple, let me summarize the results of this chapter thus far. The analysis of terminology employed in the building narrative led us to conclude that the oldest term used for the description of the interior parts of the temple was "the inner house." This term was later reinterpreted as an equivalent of the term debir. The most recent stratum employs the term "the Holy of Holies," interpreting the temple as the continuation of the tabernacle of the Pentateuch. Finally, the most frequently used technical terminology -debir, hekal, and ulam -describes a tripartite temple.

2014