Jean-Jacques Glassner
Jean-Jacques Glassner is a French historian, specialist of the Mesopotamian world and cuneiform script.
Biography
During his studies at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, he devoted himself to assyriology. He later taught at the universities of Geneva, Poitiers, Strasbourg, Jerusalem. A professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, he is also directeur de recherche at the Centre national de [la recherche scientifique|CNRS] where he heads the Unit of archaeology and sciences of ancient times in Paris [West University Nanterre La Défense].His research has focused specifically on the cuneiform script. In 2006, appeared under his leadership the French version of the "Archaeological encyclopedia of the Holy land" .
Publications
- 1986: La Chute d'Akkadé. L'événement et sa mémoire, Berlin, D. Reimer.
- 1993: Chroniques mésopotamiennes, presented and transl. by Jean-Jacques Glassner, Paris, Les Belles Lettres.
- 2000: Écrire à Sumer. L'invention du cunéiforme, Paris, Éditions du Seuil.
- 2002: La Mésopotamie, Paris, les Belles lettres.
- 2003: La Tour de Babylone. Que reste-t-il de la Mésopotamie ?, Paris, Éditions du Seuil.
- 2006: Dictionnaire archéologique de la Bible, under the direction of Avraham Negev and Shimon Gibson for the English edition Archaeological encyclopedia of the Holy land; French edition under the direction of Jean-Jacques Glassner; translated from English by Marianne and Nicolas Véron; photographs by Zev Radovan and Erich Lessing, Paris, Hazan,.