Eckart Frahm
Eckart Frahm (born February 25, 1967 ) is a German ancient orientalist and has been a professor at Yale University since 2008 .
Frahm received his doctorate in 1996 from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and completed his habilitation in 2007 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg under Stefan Maul . His main research interests are Assyrian and Babylonian history as well as Mesopotamian scholarly texts from the last millennium BC. Together with Enrique Jiménez , he initiated the Yale University's Cuneiform Commentaries Project, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities , which aims to digitize the large corpora of Babylonian and Assyrian commentary texts. Frahm has been a member of the German Archaeological Institute since 2007 .
Works (selection)
- Introduction to the Sanherib inscriptions , Vienna 1997 - ISBN 978-3-900345-04-4
- Babylonian and Assyrian text commentaries, origins of interpretation , Münster 2011 - ISBN 978-3-86835-056-2
- Neo-babylonian Letters and Contracts from the Eanna Archive , New Haven 2011 - ISBN 978-0-300-16959-1
- History of ancient Mesopotamia , Stuttgart 2013 - ISBN 978-3-15-019108-8
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| SURNAME | Frahm, Eckart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ancient orientalist, professor at Yale University |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1967 |