Ilan Peled
Docent
- Naam
- Dr. I. Peled
- Telefoon
- 071 5272727
- i.peled@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2335-662X
Ilan Peled is docent aan het Instituut voor Regiostudies.
Ilan Peled is historicus van het oude Nabije Oosten. Hij is opgeleid in de assyriologie, hittitologie en Bijbelwetenschappen en zijn onderzoek richt zich op recht, gender, religie en cultus binnen enkele van de oudste geletterde culturen uit de menselijke geschiedenis.
Na het behalen van zijn doctoraat in de assyriologie bekleedde hij postdoctorale functies aan New York University, de University of Pennsylvania, de Hebrew University of Jerusalem en het Oriental Institute van de University of Chicago. Voordat hij in 2021 begon bij het LIAS, werkte hij als docent aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam en de Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Hij heeft vier monografieën gepubliceerd: Masculinities 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) en Magical Passages in Ancient Near Eastern Rituals (2026, Routledge).
Daarnaast redigeerde hij de bundel Structures of Power: Law and Gender Across the Ancient Near East and Beyond (2017, University of Chicago) en publiceerde hij ongeveer vijftig artikelen over uiteenlopende aspecten van de geschiedenis en cultuur van het oude Nabije Oosten.
Docent
- Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
Contact
- Peled I. (2026), Law and gender in the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible. In: Candelora D. & Steadman S. (red.), A cultural history of gender in early civilizations. London: Bloomsbury. 41-61.
- Peled I. (23 maart 2026), Blood on the Doorposts: a rite of passage marking Israel’s freedom. The Torah. [webartikel].
- Peled I. (2026), Ehebruch im alten Mesopotamien: Zwischen Gesetzestext und rechtlicher Praxis, Antike Welt: Zeitschrift für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte 26(4): 28-32.
- Peled I. (2026), Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Peled I. (2025), Magical passages in ancient near eastern rituals: liminality, transformation and separation. Ritual in the Ancient Mediterranean nr. 2. Oxfordshire: Routledge.
- Peled I. (2025), Black and white: a tale of two gates in the hittite ritual of Tunnawi for curing genital disorders, KASKAL. Rivista di storia, ambienti e culture del Vicino Oriente Antico, n.s. 2: 1-8.
- Peled I. (2025), Saying and Doing: performative utterance in ancient Near Eastern magical rituals, Akkadica 146(1): 67-87 (5).
- Peled I. (2024), Bespreking van: 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.E. (red.), The Cambridge world history of sexualities: volume 2: systems of thought and belief. Cambridge: 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), Bespreking van: 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. (red.), 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. (red.), The mummy under the bed: essays on gender and methodology in the Ancient Near East. Münster: Zaphon. 433-446.
- Peled I. (2021), Bespreking van: Lipka H. & Wells B. (2020), Sexuality and law in the Torah. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies nr. 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. (red.), 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. (red.), Gender and methodology in the Ancient Near East. Second Workshop on Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East 1 februari 2017 - 3 februari 2017: Universitat de Barcelona. 55-63.
- Peled I. (2018), T-920: an old Babylonian letter?. In: Regev D. & Hizmi H. (red.), 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), Bespreking van: Ilona Zsolnay (2017), Being a Man: Negotiating Ancient Constructs of Masculinity: Routledge. Ancient West & East 17: 497-499.
- Peled I. (red.) (2017), Structures of power: law and gender across the Ancient Near East and beyond nr. 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. (red.), 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), Bespreking van: 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), Bespreking van: 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 nr. 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. (red.), 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. (red.), 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 juli 2010 - 30 juli 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. (red.), Acts of the VIIth International Congress of Hittitology, Çorum, August 25–31 2008. VIIth International Congress of Hittitology 25 augustus 2008 - 31 augustus 2008 623-636.
- Peled I. (2010), ‘Amore, more, ore, re…’: Sexual terminology and the Hittite Law. In: Cohen. Y., Gilan A. & Miller J. (red.), Pax Hethitica: studies on the Hittites and their neighbours in Honour of Itamar singer 247-260.