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. 2 (2025)
Published: 2026-01-09

Articles

  • Divine Approval and Support of the King Going into War The Case of King Saul, Biblical and Hittite Descriptions

    Ada Taggar Cohen
    199-220
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v4i2.2875

  • Tiny Dancers An Archaeological View of Hidden Figures on the Mari Plaque

    Anne Porter
    221-263
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v4i2.2868

  • Temple/Herd Mesopotamian Visions of Animal Community in the Early Third Millennium BCE

    David Mulder
    264-305
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v4i2.2878

  • Birds of a Feather Animal Criticism, Domestication, and The Use of Bird Imagery and Metaphor in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes

    Samuel Boyd
    306-336
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v4i2.2862

  • Broad-scale Patterns in the Distribution of Ethnic Names in the Neo-Babylonian Oracc Corpus

    Matthew Ong
    337-405
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v4i2.2876
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