Wayne Horowitz received his BA from Brandeis University. He completed his Ph.D thesis at Birmingham University under the supervision of W. G. Lambert. Horowitz lectures at the Rothberg School for Overseas Students in the Department of Assyriology. Prof. Horowitz is leading a team making available in publication the decipherment of a Law code fragment, the first found in Israel that shows features similar to the law code of Hammurabi.
Publications
His published works based on Sumerian and Akkadian texts written in cuneiform, these containing writings which in some way consider the structure of the Cosmos, are considered authoritative.
Books
with Rita Watson Writing science before the Greeks : a naturalistic analysis of the Babylonian astronomical treatise MUL.APIN
Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography. Winoa Lake, ID.: Eisenbrauns,
The Astrolabes and Related Texts: Mesopotamian Astronomy Before 1000 B.C. Vienna: Archiv für Orientforschung Beihefte-series, ;
with Takayoshi Oshima and Avraham Winitzer Hazor 17, the forthcoming IEJ, in press
with Takayoshi Oshima, Hazor: A Cuneiform city in Canaan a retrospective and look forward in 6 ICAANEHazor 16, the forthcoming IEJ, in press ", New Light on an Old Find from Hazor, in M. Cogan and D. Kahn eds., Treasures on Camels' Humps, Historical and [Literary Studies from the Ancient Near East Presented to Israel Eph'al, Jerusalem, 2008, pp. 99–103 ","Hazor 15: Letter Fragment from Hazor, IEJ 57/1, pp. 34–41",
with Takayoshi Oshima and Siegfried Kreuzer, Die Keilschrifttexte von Taanach/ Tell Tacannek', in ibid., pp. 85–99,
with Takayoshi Oshima, The Taanach Cuneiform Tablets, A Retrospective, in Siegfried Kreuzer ed., Taanach/ Tell Tacannek: 100 Jahre Forschungen zur Archäologie, zur Geschichte, zu den Fundobjecten und zu den Keilschrifttexten,, Frankfurt am Main, 2006, pp. 77–84,New Discovery on an Old Finding, in Qadmoniyot vol. 38/ 129,, pp. 13–14", Cuneiform Tablets from Canaan in the Arkeologji Müzesi in Istanbul, Colloquium Anatolicum, ", Two More Cuneiform Finds from Hazor, IEJ 52, pp. 179-186",
A Kettle Drum ritual during Iyar-Seleucid Era 85 NABU 1991-80,The Amarna Age: Inscribed Clay Cylinder from Beth-Shean, Computed Tomography Imaging of Sealed Clay Cuneiform Tablets. HaTebah Archaeologia WeMedeah 3 8-12
with Takayoshi Oshima and Seth Sanders A Bibliographical List of Cuneiform Inscriptions from Canaan, Palestine/Philistia, and The Land of Israel, JAOS 122, pp. 753–766 An Astronomical Fragment from Columbia University and the Babylonian Revolts against XerxesJournal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 23 61-67;
with S. Paul, Two Proposed Janus Parallelisms in Akkadian Literature. N.A.B.U. 11-12;
Two New Ziqpu-Star Texts.Journal of Cuneiform Studies 43 89-98; A Join to Enuma Anu Enlil 50. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 43 127-129; Moab and Edom in the Sargon Geography.Israel Exploration Journal 43 151-156; "A Parallel to Shamash Hymn 11-12 and the Melammu of the Sun. N.A.B.U. 54-55; Mesopotamian Accounts of Creation. Encyclopedia of Cosmology. Ed. N. Hetherington 387-397;
An Administrative Tablet from Hazor: A Preliminary Edition." Israel Exploration Journal 42 21-33;
with A. Shaffer, "
A Fragment of a Letter from Hazor." Israel Exploration Journal 42 165-167;"Two Abnu-Sikinsu Fragments." Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 82 112-121; "A Kettle-Drum Ritual during Iyar Seleucid Era 85." N.A.B.U. 52-53; "The Reverse of the Neo-Assyrian Planisphere CT 33 11." Grazer Morgenlandische Studien 3 149-159; "Antiochus I, Esagil, and a Celebration of the Ritual for Renovation of Temples." Revue d'assyriologie 85 75-77;
with P. Watson,
Further Notes on Birmingham Cuneiform Tablets volume I Acta Sumerologica 13 409-417;Two Notes on Etana's Flight to Heaven. Orientalia 59 511-517; The Isles of the Nations: Genesis 10:5 and Babylonian Geography. Studies in the Pentateuch 35-43; More Writings for Ursa Major with Determinative gis. N.A.B.U. 2-3; Two Mul-Apin Fragments. Archiv für Orientforschung 36/37 116-117; A Middle-Assyrian Exemplar of Urra. Archiv für Orientforschung 35 161-178; An Akkadian Name for Ursa-Minor: mar.gid.da.an.na = eriqqi samami. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 79 242-245; The Babylonian Map of the World. Iraq 47 147-165;
