David I. Owen
- Bernard and Jane Schapiro Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
- Director, Program of Jewish Studies
- Ancient Near Eastern history and archaeology; Assyriology; Biblical history and archaeology; maritime history and archaeology
David I. Owen (Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1969) is the Bernard and Jane Schapiro Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Director of the Program of Jewish Studies. In addition to extensive archaeological fieldwork in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, and Israel, he has published widely in cuneiform studies, with over 100 articles and reviews and four volumes of cuneiform texts, the most recent of which is Neo-Sumerian Texts from American Collections (Materiali per il Vocabolario Neosumerico, Vol. 15, Rome: Unione Accademica Nazionale - Multigrafica Editrice, 1991). He is the founding editor of the series Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians (Eisenbrauns and CDL Press) that began in 1981 and is in its thirteenth volume (2003), now co-edited with Professor Gernot Wilhelm (Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg). He is currently working on a multi-volume publication of cuneiform texts in the Cornell University collections.
