Belgian *yriologist and Egyptologist (born 1956)

Marc Van de Mieroop (b. 22 October 1956) is a noted Belgian *yriologist and Egyptologist who has been full professor of Ancient Near Eastern history at Columbia University since 1996.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Publications
• 3 References
• 4 See also

Biography

Born in Belgium to a prominent Flemish family who paternally descend from Jan I van Cuijk. He received his bachelor's degree form the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, later attending Yale University, where he received his master's degree in 1980 and his doctoral degree in 1983. He taught at Yale and Oxford, later becoming a full professor at Columbia in 1996. His son Kenan Van de Mieroop is also a noted professor. Professor Van de Mieroop specializes the history of the Ancient Near East from the beginning of writing to the age of Alexander the Great, with a particular interest in the socio-economic and political history of the Ancient Near East. He has written extensively on historical methodology and was a Senior Fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in 2011, and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2013. In 2016 he held a fellowship from the ACLS for a project en*led, "Babylonian Cosmopolitanism and the Birth of Greek and Hebrew Literate Traditions."

Publications

In addition to his articles and translations, his book publications include:

• Crafts in the Early Isin Period (1987),
• Sumerian Administrative Do*ents from the Reigns of Ishbi-Erra and Shu-Ilishu (1987)
• Society and Enterprise in Old Babylonian Ur (1992)
• The Ancient Mesopotamian City (1997 and 1999) Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN:978-0-19-815286-6
• Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History (1999)
• King Hammurabi of Babylon (2005) Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN:978-1-4051-2660-1
• The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II (2007) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN:978-1-4051-6069-8
• A History of Ancient Egypt (2011) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN:978-1-4051-6071-1
• with Bonnie Smith, Richard von Glahn, and Kris Lane, Crossroads and Cultures. A History of the World's Peoples (2012), Bedford-St. Martin, ISBN:0-312-57317-0
• A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000–323 BC (2015) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN:978-1118718162
• Philosophy before the Greeks. The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia (2015), Princeton University Press. ISBN:978-0691157184

References

See also

• Columbia University: Marc Van de Mieroop
• Magazine Interview