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Daniel C. Snell Assyriologist, Ancient Economic Historian, Biblical Scholar 1) EDUCATION Yale University, Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Ph.D., 1975. Stanford University, Humanities Special Programs. 1966‑1970. B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, 1971. Michigan and California public schools, 1953‑66. 2) SCHOLARSHIP : BOOKS To buy books click on BOOKS. 1. Flight
and Freedom in the Ancient Near East. Leiden: Brill, 2001 2. Life in the Ancient Near East, 3100‑332
B.C. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 3. Twice‑Told Proverbs and the Composition of the Book of Proverbs. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1993. 4. Daniel C. Snell and Carl H. Lager, Economic Texts From Sumer = Yale Oriental Series Volume 18. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. 5. Ledgers and Prices. Early Mesopotamian Merchant Accounts = Yale Near Eastern Researches Volume 8. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982. 6. The E.A. Hoffman Collection and Other American Collections. Materiali per il Vocabolario Neosumerico. Volume IX. Rome: Unione Accademica Nazionale, 1979. 7. A Workbook of Cuneiform Signs. Malibu, California: Undena Press, 1979, 1982. EDITED BOOK Mark E. Cohen, Daniel C. Snell, David B. Weisberg, eds. The Tablet and The Scroll, Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W. Hallo. Bethesda, MD: CDL, 1993. ARTICLES 1. “Intellectual Freedom in the Ancient Near East?” in Intellectual Life of the Ancient Near East = Comptes Rendus de la Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 43, edited by Ji_í Prosecký, Prague: Oriental Institute, 1998, 359-363. 2. “Assyria and Babylonia,” “Israel,” “Hammurabi’s Code,” “Law: Ancient Middle East.” In Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery, edited by Paul Finkelman and Joseph C. Miller, 63-65, 374, 480-481. New York: Macmillan and Simon and Schuster, 1998. 3. “The Relation Between the Targum and the Peshitta of Proverbs.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 110 (1998): 72-74. 4. "Methods of Exchange and Coinage." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, edited by Jack Sasson, 1487-1497. New York: Scribner's, 1995 . 5. "A Neo‑Babylonian Colophon." Revue d'Assyriologie 88:1 (1994): 59‑63. 6. "Ancient Israelite and Neo‑Assyrian Societies and Economies." In The Tablet and The Scroll, Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W. Hallo, edited by Mark E. Cohen, Daniel C. Snell, and David B. Weisberg, 223‑226. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press, 1993. 7. "Taxes and Taxation." "Tax Office." "Trade and Commerce in the Ancient Near East." In Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 6, edited by David N. Freedman, 338‑340, 625‑629 . New York: Doubleday, 1992. 8. "The Most Obscure Verse: Proverbs xxvi 10." Vetus Testamentum. 41:3 (1991): 350‑356. 9. "Marketless Trading in Our Time." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient,39 (1991): 129‑141. 10. "The Wheel in Proverbs XX 26." Vetus Testamentum 39 (1989): 503‑507. 11. "The Lager Texts: Transliterations, Translations, and Notes." Acta Sumerologica 11 (1989): 155‑224. 12. "An Honors Tutorial in Ancient History." National Honors Report 9:4 (1988): 2‑4. 13. "The Allocation of Resources in the Umma Silver Account System." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 31 (1988): 1‑13. 14. "Notes on Love and Death in Proverbs." In Love and Death in the Ancient Near East. Essays in Honor of Marvin H. Pope, edited by John Marks and Robert Good, 165-168. Guilford, Connecticut: Four Quarters, 1987. 15. "The Ur III Tablets in the Emory University Museum." Acta Sumerologica 9 (1987): 203‑275. 16. "The Old Babylonian Cuneiform Texts from Chagar Bazar in the Aleppo Museum.” Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes 33:2 (1983) (appeared 1986): 217‑241 (English): 285‑288 (Arabic). (And 11 other articles) 3) TEACHING EXPERIENCE L. J. Semrod Presidential Professor, 2001-2005 Professor of History, University of Oklahoma. 1992‑ . Ass’t Prof., 1983‑87, Assoc., 1987‑92. Assistant Professor of Religion, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota. 1981‑82. Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Barnard College. 1978‑80. Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Connecticut College, New London, 1977‑78. Visiting Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan. Spring, 1977. Instructor in Near Eastern Languages and Literature, University of Washington. 1975‑1976. 4) OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Provost's Administrative Fellow, University of Oklahoma, 1994‑1995. Epigrapher, Site Supervisor, University of Melbourne /University of Chicago Archaeological Expedition to El‑Qitar, Syria, 1983‑1984, 1984‑1985, 1987. Fulbright Researcher, The National Museum, Aleppo, Syria, 1982‑1983. Epigrapher, Site Supervisor, Yale University Project at Tell Leilan, Syria. 1980. 5) AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 1. Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 1997. 2. Summer Fellow, The Oregon Humanities Center, Eugene, 1996. 3. Seminar member, National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar on "Slavery and the Atlantic Plantation Complex: 1450‑1890," Johns Hopkins University, June‑July, 1993. 4. Australian National Humanities Research Centre Fellow, Canberra, Australia, 1990. 5. National Humanities Center Fellow, Research Triangle Park, N.C., 1989‑90. 6. Summer Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1986. 7. National Endowment for the Humanities Category B Fellow,1980‑81. 8. Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, City University of New York, 1976‑77. 6) PERSONAL INFORMATION. Member, Norman, Oklahoma, Board of Education, 1997- . Modern languages read: Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Spanish. Ancient languages read: Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Sumerian, Syriac. Age 56, married to Katherine Barwick‑Snell, Ed. D.; children: James, 14; Abigail, 13. |