Yael Leokumovich

Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations 

Subject: The Divine Sign: of Meaning and Nature in Babylonia of the first millennium BCE.

Supervisor: Prof. Uri Gabbay.

Abstract: My dissertation is focused on intellectual history and meaning construction within the Babylonian thought, in view of the ecological system that surrounded the Babylonian scholar-priests in the first millennium BCE. In my research I explore intertextuality, languages, literature, states of consciousness and sign reading in the ancient civilization of Babylon. My research is part of the “Ancient Mesopotamian Priestly Scholasticism in the First Millennium BCE” ERC project (PI: Prof. Uri Gabbay).

President Scholarship 2022/23