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Amir Gilan
Tel Aviv University scholar of Hittite texts and ancient Anatolia, studying religion, ritual, literature and historiography.
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Amir Gilan is a professor in Tel Aviv University’s archaeology department. His interests include Hittite studies, ancient AnatoliaAnatoliaAnatolia is the region occupying the Asian part of present-day TurkeyGlossary · Click to read the explanation and Syria, religious history, ritualRitualAn organised or distinguished practice meaningful to a community; it may leave traces, but its form alone does not reveal an associated doctrine.Glossary · Click to read the explanation, literature and historiography. [1]
With Jenny Strauss ClayJenny Strauss ClayProfessor emerita at the University of Virginia, specializing in early Greek poetry and its gods and human–divine relations.Glossary · Click to read the explanation he studied possible Song of Emergence–HesiodHesiodGreek poet whose major work is generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE, including the Theogony.Glossary · Click to read the explanation relationships in 2014. A 2021 chapter considered the song’s social setting; his proposed encounter of traditions near Mount Hazzi remains a scholarly transmission scenario. [2][3]
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- Tel Aviv University — Amir Gilan Position and research interests. Return to the text ↑
- Jenny Strauss Clay and Amir Gilan, The Hittite Song of Emergence and the Theogony (2014) pp.1–7 and note25. Return to the text ↑
- Amir Gilan, The Social Setting of the Hurro-Hittite Song of Emergence (2021) Publisher chapter summary and metadata, not the complete chapter. Return to the text ↑
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IL Archive, «Amir Gilan», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/people/amir-gilan