About Andrew R. George
Andrew R. George is a British professor, scholar, and Assyriologist.
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Andrew George studied Assyriology at the University of Birmingham (1973–79) and for a while kept a public house in Darlaston. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on “Babylonian Topographical Texts” under the supervision of W. G. Lambert (1985). Since 1983 he has taught Akkadian and Sumerian language and literature at SOAS, University of London, where he is now Professor of Babylonian.
His specialisms are Babylonian literature, religion and intellectual culture. He has been elected Fellow of the British Academy (2006) and Honorary Member of the American Oriental Society (2012). He is a former Visiting Professor at the University of Heidelberg (2000), Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2004–5), Research Associate at Rikkyo University, Tokyo (2009) and Senior Research Fellow of the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust (2012–13). He was founding chairman of the London Centre for the Ancient Near East (1995–2000) and for seventeen years co-editor of the archaeological journal Iraq (1994–2011).
His best-known books are a critical edition of the Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic for OUP (2003) and a prize-winning translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh for Penguin Classics (2000). Most recently he has published five volumes of new texts from cuneiform tablets now in Norway: Babylonian Literary Texts (2009), Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions (2011), and Babylonian Divinatory Texts (2013), Mesopotamian Incantations (2016), and Assyrian Archival Documents in the Schøyen Collection (2017). Further volumes are in preparation.
His specialisms are Babylonian literature, religion and intellectual culture. He has been elected Fellow of the British Academy (2006) and Honorary Member of the American Oriental Society (2012). He is a former Visiting Professor at the University of Heidelberg (2000), Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2004–5), Research Associate at Rikkyo University, Tokyo (2009) and Senior Research Fellow of the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust (2012–13). He was founding chairman of the London Centre for the Ancient Near East (1995–2000) and for seventeen years co-editor of the archaeological journal Iraq (1994–2011).
His best-known books are a critical edition of the Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic for OUP (2003) and a prize-winning translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh for Penguin Classics (2000). Most recently he has published five volumes of new texts from cuneiform tablets now in Norway: Babylonian Literary Texts (2009), Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions (2011), and Babylonian Divinatory Texts (2013), Mesopotamian Incantations (2016), and Assyrian Archival Documents in the Schøyen Collection (2017). Further volumes are in preparation.
Source: soas.ac.uk on 07/03/2020
Top works
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| A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian | The Epic of Gilgamesh | |
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| 2000 | 2000 | |
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Background
Andrew R. George is a well-known historian and scholar of Mesopotamia and its literature.
Authored works by Andrew R. George
Associated works
Role: Editor
Role: Translator
Role: Contributor
Bibliography
Black, Jeremy, Andrew George, and Nicholas Postgate, eds. A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian. 2ed. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000.
George, Andrew R. The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian. London, England: Penguin Books, 2000.
George, Andrew R., trans. "The Standard Version of the Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: 'He who saw the Deep.'" In The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian, 1-100, edited by Andrew R. George. London, England: Penguin Books, 2000.
