
Julia Krul
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. J.H.E. Krul
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- j.h.e.krul@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Fields of interest
Religion, scholarship and cult in first-millennium Babylonia; the city of Uruk in the Hellenistic period; an analytic and comparative approach to Mesopotamian rituals.
I am currently preparing a PhD thesis about the Anu cult of Hellenistic Uruk. In particular, it will offer a detailed analysis of the nocturnal fire ceremony (TU 41), its historical context, possible calendrical setting and religious and social functions.
Education
2012 – present: PhD research at Leiden University
2009 – 2012: PhD research at WWU Münster
2000 – 2007:
doctoraal in Ancient Cultures, VU, Amsterdam
Employment
2012 – present: teacher of BA- and MA-courses Assyriology, Leiden University
2009-2012: research associate, Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics’, WWU Münster
Teaching
2013: seminar Academic Skills & Research Materials of the Assyriologist
2013: survey course History of Ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia I
2013: seminar History of Ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia II
2013: BA-course Akkadian: first-millennium Babylonian temple rituals
Publications
‘The Cult of Ereškigal and the Pantheon of Seleucid Uruk’, in: M. Dietrich, W. Dupré, A. Häußling, R. Schmitt eds., Die "dunklen Seiten" Gottes. MARG 21 (Münster 2013) 59-71
‘Uruk in hellenistischer Zeit: Tradition und Neuerung’, Antike Welt 3/2013: 34-37
Assistant Professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES Assyriologie
- postdoctoral research