About the Journal

Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East is a bi-annual Open Access journal dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia from the third through first millennia BCE that crosses and disrupts disciplinary boundaries. 

Submissions should explicitly seek to adopt, adapt, or integrate theories and methodologies from within the traditional fields of ancient studies (i.e. archaeology, Assyriology, biblical studies, Egyptology, Hittitology, etc.), as well as from socio-anthropological and scientific disciplines. 

Avar is an Open Access publication, allowing users to freely access, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles for any lawful purpose without requiring permission from the publisher or author. 

Avar accepts traditional length articles and short notes in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

ISSN: 2752-3527 (Print) ISSN: 2752-3535 (Online) | Avar is published twice a year in January and July.

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Current Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025): Special Issue: Mobility and Migration in the ANE
Published: 2025-06-05

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Articles

  • Methodological Inheritances and Interventions Interdisciplinary Study of Mobility, Migration, and Diaspora

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v4i1.2872
    Eric M. Trinka, Alexiana Fry
    1-10

  • Captives Were Migrants Too

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v4i1.2863
    Catherine Cameron
    11-37

  • Archaeology and Migration The Journey Towards a Relational World

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v4i1.2870
    Megan Daniels
    38-74

  • Diaspora Theorizing and the Diasporas of the Middle East

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v4i1.2865
    Ipek Demir
    75-83

  • A Feminist Account of Migrant Justice An Overview

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v4i1.2871
    Allison B. Wolf
    84-102

  • At the Crossroads of Interdisciplinarity Mobility and Migration in the Bible and ANE

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v4i1.2873
    Alexiana Fry, Eric M. Trinka
    103-123

  • Divergent Views of Migration A Multidisciplinary Conversation about Human Mobility in the Hebrew Bible

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v4i1.2861
    Ida Hartmann, Alexiana Fry, Kacper Ziemba , Frederik Poulsen
    124-155

  • Redefining Diaspora as Home through Realised Metaphor The Polisification of Aseneth

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v4i1.2860
    R. Gillian Glass
    156-197
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