Ilan Peled is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies.

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Academic Profile

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, he held postdoctoral appointments at 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 had worked as a lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam. He has published four monographs: Masculities and Third Gender (2016, Ugarit-Verlag), Law and Gender in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible (2020, Routledge), Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible (2026, Cambridge University Press) and Magical Passages in Ancient Near Eastern Rituals (2026, Routledge). He also edited the volume Structures of Power: Law and Gender Across the Ancient Near East and Beyond (2017, University of Chicago) and published approximately fifty articles on various aspects of history and culture in the ancient Near East.

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