David I. Owen
- Bernard and Jane Schapiro Professor
of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic 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. 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), and The Garshana Archives (with Rudolph H. Mayer, CUSAS 3, Bethesda: CDL Press, 2007). 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 eighteenth
volume (2009), co-edited with Professor Gernot Wilhelm (Bayerische
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg). He is also the founding editor-in-chief of Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology (2007ff.), a multi-volume publication of cuneiform texts and studies in the
Cornell University collections and elsewhere.
