Ilan Peled
Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. I. Peled
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- i.peled@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2335-662X
Ilan Peled is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies.
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Ilan Peled is a historian of the ancient Near East. Trained in Assyriology, Hittitology and Biblical Studies, his research focuses on law, gender, religion and cult among some of the most ancient literate cultures in human history. After obtaining his PhD in Assyriology from Bar-Ilan University, he held postdoctoral appointments in New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Before joining the staff of LIAS in 2021, he worked as lecturer in the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam. He has published two monographs, an edited volume and about forty articles pertaining to various aspects of history and culture in the ancient Near East. He presently prepares his third monograph for publication, on magical rituals in Mesopotamia and Hatti.
Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES APT
- Peled I. (2024), Review of: Zinger O. (2023), Living with the law: gender and community among the Jews of medieval Egypt. Philadelphia: University of Penssylvania Press. Journal of Church and State .
- Peled I. (2024), Sexuality in the systems of thought and belief of the Ancient Near East. In: Keufler M. & Wiesner-Hanks M. (Eds.), The Cambridge world history of sexualities: Volume 2: systems of thought and belief . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 43-62.
- Peled I. (2022), The Deviant Villain: the construction of Villainy as deviant otherness in Mesopotamian royal rhetoric, Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East 1(1): 51-87.
- Peled I. (2022), Review of: Anthonioz S. & Fink S. (2019), Representing the wise: a gendered approach: Proceedings of the 1st Melammu Workshop. Lille, 4-5 April 2016. Archiv für Orientforschung 55: 144-147.
- Peled I. (2022), Contempt and similar emotions in Akkadian and Hittite literary texts. In: Sonik K. & Steinert U. (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of emotions in the Ancient Near East. London and New York: Routledge. 597-613.
- Peled I. (2022), Was it law? : Gender relations and legal practice in the Ancient Near East. In: De Graef K., Garcia-Ventura A., Goddeeris A & Nakhai B.A. (Eds.), The mummy under the bed: essays on gender and methodology in the Ancient Near East. Münster: Zaphon. 433-446.
- Peled I. (2021), Review of: Lipka H. & Wells B. (2020), Sexuality and law in the Torah. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies no. 675: T&T Clark. Review of Biblical Literature .
- Peled I. (2020), Law and gender in the ancient near east and the Hebrew Bible. London and New York: Routledge.
- Peled I. (2020), A Deo Lex? : Law and religion in Ancient Near Eastern legislation, Journal for Semitics 29(1): 1-13.
- Peled I. (2020), Bestiality in Hittite thought, Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 34(1): 136–177.
- Peled I. (2019), Delict in the law Compendia of Mesopotamia and Hatti: qualitative and quantitative analyses, Journal for Semitics 28(1): 1-21.
- Peled I. (2019), Categorization and hierarchy: animals and their relations to gods, humans and things in the Hittite world. In: Mattila R., Fink S. & Ito S. (Eds.), Animals and their relation to gods, humans and things in the Ancient world. Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien, Studies in Universal and Cultural History. Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag. 79-93.
- Peled I. (2018), The laws of delict in the Hebrew Bible and their Ancient Near Eastern forerunners: analyzing and comparing social attitude to crime, Journal for Semitics 27(2): 1-22.
- Peled I. (2018), Identifying gender ambiguity in texts and artifacts. Budin S., Cifarelli M., Garcia-Ventura A. & Millet Albà A. (Eds.), Gender and methodology in the Ancient Near East. Second Workshop on Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East 1 February 2017 - 3 February 2017: Universitat de Barcelona. 55-63.
- Peled I. (2018), T-920: an old Babylonian letter?. In: Regev D. & Hizmi H. (Eds.), Finds gone astray: ADCA confiscated items 3-7.
- Peled I. (2018), Telling the (gendered) difference: biblical and Ancient Near Eastern concepts of legal gender otherness, Codex Historiae 39(1): 23-25.
- Peled I. (2018), Review of: Ilona Zsolnay (2017), Being a Man: Negotiating Ancient Constructs of Masculinity: Routledge. Ancient West & East 17: 497-499.
- Peled I. (Ed.) (2017), Structures of power: law and gender across the Ancient Near East and beyond no. 12. Chicago: Oriental Institute Press.
- Peled I. (2017), Cultural transformations from Mesopotamia to Hatti? : The case of the Gala, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 69: 109-116.
- Peled I. (2017), Gender and sex crimes in the Ancient Near East: law and custom. In: Peled I. (Ed.), Structures of power: Law and gender across the Ancient Near East and beyond: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. 27-40.
- Peled I. (2017), Pogonotrophy, castration, and revisiting a seal impression: AOD 105, assinnu and tīru, Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 17(1): 28-30.
- Peled I. (2017), šumma ālu 104: assinnu or not assinnu?, Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 17(1): 30-31.
- Peled I. (2017), Review of: Lion B. & Michel C. (2018), The role of women in work and society in the Ancient Near East. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 76(2): 354-358.
- Peled I. (2017), Review of: Stol M. (2016), Women in the Ancient Near East: De Gruyter. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 76(2): 358-361.
- Peled I. (2016), Masculinities and third gender: the origins and nature of an institutionalized gender otherness in the Ancient Near East. Alter Orient und Altes Testament: Veröffentlichungen zur Kultur und Geschichte des Alten Orients und des Alten Testaments no. 435. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.
- Peled I. (2016), Visualizing Masculinities: The Gala, Hegemony, and Mesopotamian Iconography, Near Eastern Archaeology 79(3): 158-165.
- Peled I. (2015), A New Manuscript of the Lament for Eridu, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 67: 39-43.
- Peled I. (2015), Crime and sexual offense in Hatti, Near Eastern Archaeology 78(4): 286-293.
- Peled I. (2015), kula’ūtam epēšum: gender ambiguity and contempt in Mesopotamia, Journal of the American Oriental Society 135(4): 751-764.
- Peled I. (2014), assinnu and kurgarrû Revisited, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 73(2): 283-297.
- Peled I. (2014), Men in question : parallel aspects of ambiguous masculinities in Mesopotamian and biblical sources, MAARAV, A Journal for the Study of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures 21(1-2): 127-148.
- Peled I. (2014), Religious leaders: Ancient Near East. In: O'Brian J.M. (Ed.), The Oxford encyclopedia of the bible and gender studies: Oxford University Press. 160-166.
- Peled I. (2013), Eunuchs in Hatti and Assyria: a reassessment. Feliu L., Llop J., Millet Albà A. & Sanmartín J. (Eds.), Time and history in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 56th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Barcelona 26–30 July 2010. The 56th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 26 July 2010 - 30 July 2010 785-797.
- Peled I. (2013), On the meaning of the “Changing pilpilû”, Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 13(1): 3-6.
- Peled I. (2013), Votive inscriptions of Ur-Bau, Gudea, Sîn-kāšid and Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur from the Princeton University Library Collection, Altorientalische Forschungen 40(1): 142-149.
- Peled I. (2010), Expelling the demon of effeminacy: Anniwiyani’s ritual and the question of homosexuality in Hittite thought, Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 10(1): 69-81.
- Peled I. (2010), The use of pleasure, constraints of desire: Anniwiyani’s ritual and sexuality in Hittite magical ceremonies. Süel A. (Ed.), Acts of the VIIth International Congress of Hittitology, Çorum, August 25–31 2008. VIIth International Congress of Hittitology 25 August 2008 - 31 August 2008 623-636.
- Peled I. (2010), ‘Amore, more, ore, re…’: Sexual terminology and the Hittite Law. In: Cohen. Y., Gilan A. & Miller J. (Eds.), Pax Hethitica: studies on the Hittites and their neighbours in Honour of Itamar singer 247-260.