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Amir Gilan

Tel Aviv University scholar of Hittite texts and ancient Anatolia, studying religion, ritual, literature and historiography.

Smolarz Auditorium at Tel Aviv University, 30 June 2012. Context for the university associated with Amir Gilan; not his department’s building or his portrait
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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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  1. Tel Aviv University — Amir Gilan Position and research interests. Return to the text ↑
  2. Jenny Strauss Clay and Amir Gilan, The Hittite Song of Emergence and the Theogony (2014) pp.1–7 and note25. Return to the text ↑
  3. 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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