Eckart Frahm
Director of Graduate Studies of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Professor of Assyriology
120 High Street, Rm 321
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Eckart Frahm (PhD Goettingen 1996, Habilitation Heidelberg 2007) is Professor of Assyriology at Yale since 2002. His main research interests lie in the fields of Assyrian and Babylonian history and Mesopotamian scholarly texts of the first millennium B.C. His undergraduate courses at Yale have covered Mesopotamian history, religion, and literature, and the Bible in its ancient Near Eastern setting.
Frahm is the author of a book about the Assyrian king Sennacherib and co-author with Michael Jursa of a forthcoming volume that provides autographs of two hundred Babylonian letters from Uruk now housed in the Yale Babylonian Collection; it will be published by Yale University Press. He recently completed a monograph on Babylonian and Assyrian scholarly commentaries and the origins of ancient hermeneutics, which will appear in 2008. Frahm has written numerous articles, encyclopedia contributions, and book reviews on topics ranging from Sumerian inscriptions, the ancient reception of the Gilgamesh epic, Mesopotamian prophecy, and Babylonian prisons to the history of modern scholarship on the ancient Near East.
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