Prof. Noga Ayali-Darshan
Research
Literature and Languages of the Ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ugarit, Hatti, Israel and Phoenicia)
Courses
Elementary Akkadian
Advanced Akkadian
Introduction to comperative Semitics
Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern civilizations
Ugaritic
Publications
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N. Ayali-Darshan, Treading on the Back of the Sea: The Combat between the Storm-god and the Sea in Ancient Near Eastern Literature (The biblical Encyclopedia Library 33) Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2016 (in Hebrew).
N. Ayali-Darshan, The Storm-God and the Sea: The Origin, Versions, and Diffusion of a Myth throughout the Ancient Near East (English revised edition; Orientalische Religionen in der Antike [ORA]), Tübingen, Mohr-Siebeck 2020
N. Ayali, “The Prayers for Fear of God in the Biblical Literature and the Neo-Babylonian inscriptions,” Tarbiz 74 (2005), 321–369 (in Hebrew).
N. Ayali-Darshan, “‘The Bride of the Sea’: The Traditions about Astarte and Yamm in the Ancient Near East,” in A Woman of Valor: Jerusalem Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Joan Goodnik Westenholz, ed. W. Horowitz et al. (BPOA 8; Madrid, 2010), 19–33.
N. Ayali-Darshan, “The Meaning of Hyn dḥrš ydm in Light of a Parallel from Emar,” Ugarit Forschungen 43 (2011/2012), 1-6
N. Ayali-Darshan, “A Redundancy in Nebuchadnezzar 15 and Its Literary Historical Significance,” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Societies 32 (2012), 21–29.
N. Ayali-Darshan, “The Cedar Forest's Traditions in the Egyptian Tale of The Two Brothers and Genesis 2–3,” Shnaton: An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies 22 (2013), 147-164 (in Hebrew).
N. Ayali-Darshan, “The Origin and Meaning of the Crimson Thread in the Second Temple Period Scapegoat Ritual in Light of an Ancient Syro-Anatolian Custom,” Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Periods 44 (2013), 530–552.
(“The Scapegoat Ritual and Its Ancient Near Eastern Parallels”, in https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-scapegoat-ritual-and-its-ancient-near-eastern-parallels, 2020.)
N. Ayali-Darshan, “Baal Son of Dagan: In Search of Baal’s Double Paternity,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 133 (2013), 651-657
N. Ayali-Darshan, “The Role of Aštabi in the Song of Ullikummi and the ‘Failed God’ Stories Prevalent in the East Mediterranean,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 73 (2014), 95-103
N. Ayali-Darshan, “The Question of the Order of Job 26:7-13 and the Cosmogonic Tradition of Zaphon,” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 126 (2014), 402-417.
N. Ayali-Darshan, “The Seventy Bulls Sacrificed at Sukkot (Num 29:12-34) in Light of a Ritual Text from Emar (Emar 6, 373),” Vetus Testamentum 65 (2015), 1-11.
(N. Ayali-Darshan, "Sukkot's Seventy Bulls: The Torah’s adaptation of a polytheistic ancient West-Semitic custom of sacrificing to seventy gods", in http://thetorah.com/sukkots-seventy-bulls/, 2016.)
N. Ayali-Darshan, “The Identification of Ḥmrq in Leiden Magical Papyrus I 343 + I 345 in Light of the Eblaite Texts,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 74 (2015), 87-89.
N. Ayali-Darshan, “The Other Version of the Story of the Storm-god’s Combat with the Sea in the Light of Egyptian, Ugaritic, and Hurro-Hittite Texts,” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 15 (2015), 21-50.
N. Ayali-Darshan, “The Influence of Canaanite Mythology on Egypt”, in D. Ben-Tor (ed.) Pharaoh in Canaan: The Untold Story, Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 2016 (in Hebrew and English).
N. Ayali-Darshan, "Egyptian and Levantine Belles-Lettres—Links and Influences during the Bronze Age," in P.P Creasman and R.H. Wilkinson (eds.), Pharaoh’s Land and Beyond: Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017 pp. 195–205.
N. Ayali-Darshan, “The Formation of the Prayers in the Nabonidus’ Inscriptions Nbn 4 and Nbn 5: Between Lower and Higher Criticism,” in A. Baruchi-Unna et al. (eds.), “Now It Happened in Those Days”: Studies in Biblical, Assyrian, and ANE Historiography Presented to Mordechai Cogan on His 75th Birthday, 2, Winona Lake 2017, pp. 525–535.
N. Ayali-Darshan, “The Background of the Cedar Forest Tradition in the Egyptian Tale of the Two Brothers in Light of West-Asian Literature,” Egypt & The Levant 27 (2017), pp. 183–194.
N. Ayali-Darshan, “The Elements ש(ו)ע/שבע/תע in Biblical Proper Names: a Re-Evaluation, ”Journal of North-West Semitic Languages 44 (2018), pp. 1–13.
N. Ayali-Darshan, "The Sequence of Sir 4:26–27 in Light of Akkadian and Aramaic Texts from the Levant and Later Writings," Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 130 (2018), pp. 436–449.
N. Ayali-Darshan, “‘Do not Open your Heart to Your Wife or Servant’ (Onch. 13:17): A West-Asiatic Antecedent and its Relation to Later Wisdom Instructions,” in T. Oshima (ed.), Teaching Morality in Antiquity: Wisdom Texts, Images, and Oral Traditions (Orientalische Religionen), Tübingen 2018, pp. 95–103.
N. Ayali-Darshan, "The Death of Mot and his Resurrection in the Light of Egyptian Sources," Ugarit Forschungen 48 (2017 [2019]), pp. 1–20.
N. Ayali-Darshan, “The Closing Hymn of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle (KTU 1.6 VI 42–54): A Mesopotamian Background?” Welt des Orients 50 (2020), pp. 79–96.
Last Updated Date : 29/01/2024