
Rieneke Sonnevelt
Guest researcher
- Name
- Drs. D.A.M. Sonnevelt
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 5696
- d.a.m.sonnevelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Rieneke Sonnevelt is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies.
Fields of interest:
- The (history of the) Aramaic Language;
- Mesopotamia in the first millennium BC;
- Aramaic epigraphs on cuneiform clay tablets;
- Languages in contact;
- Targumic Literature.
PhD research
Aramaic Inscriptions on Cuneiform Clay Tablets from First Millenium BC Babylonia
Supervisors: Caroline Waerzeggers and Margaretha Folmer
My research focuses on the spread and use of the Aramaic language in Babylonian society during the first millennium BC. For this purpose, I conduct a linguistic and socio-historical analysis of the Aramaic inscriptions contained on cuneiform clay tablets from the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods. This research is carried out in the framework of ERC project "By the Rivers of Babylon".
CV
Education
2013 PhD research at Leiden University
2012 ResMa in Linguistics, LUCL / Hebrew and Aramaic Studies at Leiden University
2009 BA in Applied Linguistics, VU University, Amsterdam
Minor Hebrew Language and Culture, University of Amsterdam
Guest researcher
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES Assyriologie
Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES Assyriologie
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