Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2033
E-Mail:	j.c.fincke@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SMES Assyriologie
Office Address:	Witte Singel-complex Witte Singel 25/M. de Vrieshof 4 2311 BZ Leiden Room number 2.04b

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Fields of interest

- The Nuzi-texts respectively the texts from the kingdom of Arraphe
- The Hurrian language
- Medical texts
- Astrological texts and the omen series enuma anu enlil
- Divination
- Akkadian texts from Hattusa
- The Neo-Assyrian period

Research

"The Impact of Migration: Migrant-Related Change in the Ancient Near East"

CV

Relevant training

	Study of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Assyriology), Hittitology, and Egyptology at University of Hamburg, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, all Germany.
July 1989	M.A. Universität Hamburg. Title of thesis: Die Adoption von Frauen nach den Urkunden aus Nuzi.
March 1999	Ph. D. Julius - Maximilians - Universität Würzburg. Title of thesis: Augenleiden nach keilschriftlichen Quellen. Untersuchungen zur altorientalischen Medizin.
January 2006	"Habilitation" and nomination as "Privatdozent" for Assyriology at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.

 
Professional experience

April 1993 - April 1999	Research Assistant ("wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin") at Institut für Orientalische Philologie, Würzburg.
October 1999 - September 2002	Research Assistant ("wissenschaftliche Angestellte") for the project "Assur Forschung, Heidelberg " of Professor S.M. Maul within the framework of the "Leibniz-Preis" at the Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients - Assyriologie of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
March 2003 - August 2003	Curator at The British Museum, London , Ancient Near East Department, for the "Ashurbanipal Library Project" focused on the Babylonian tablets of the library.
October 2003 - September 2005	Research Assistant ("wissenschaftliche Angestellte") at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg - Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, funded by the "Margarete von Wrangell-Habilitationsprogramm".
October 2005 - December 2005	Curatorial "Townley Fellow" at The British Museum, London, Ancient Near East Department, for the "Ashurbanipal Library Project" focused on the Babylonian tablets from Nineveh.
April 2006 - June 2006	Curatorial "Townley Fellow" at The British Museum, London , Ancient Near East Department, for the "Ashurbanipal Library Project".
August 2006 - March 2010	Researcher (Post. doc.) for the Project "The Transfer of Knowledge in a Cuneiform Culture" of Prof. W. van Soldt at Universiteit Leiden , Netherlands , TCMO - Assyriologie.
Since May 2010	Researcher (Post. doc.) for the Project "The Impact of Migration: Migrant-Related Change in the Ancient Near East" of Dr. Jan Gerrit Dercksen at Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands, LIAS - Assyriology.

Publications

• 2000 Augenleiden nach keilschriftlichen Quellen. Untersuchungen zur altorientalischen Medizin, Würzburger medizinhistorische Forschungen Band 70, Würzburg.
• 2001 Der Assur-Katalog der Serie en‚ma anu enlil (EAE), OrNS 70, 19-39.
• 2002 Excavations at Nuzi 10/3, 175-300, SCCNH 12, 169-304, with an Appendix to EN 10/3, SCCNH 12, 205-320.
• 2005 The Babylonian Texts of Nineveh. Report on the the British Museum's Ashurbanipal Library Project, AfO 50 (2003/04 publ. 2005) 111-149.
• 2005 Zu den hethitischen Übersetzungen babylonischer Omentexte: Die kalendarischen und astrologischen Omina in KUB VIII 35, SMEA 46.2 (2004 publ. 2005) 215-241.

Online-Publicaties:

• 10/2003 . "The Babylonian Nineveh Texts". Database created as part of the Ashurbanipal Library Project of the British Museum (2003). This database is updated on a regular basis.
• 02/2006 . "List of Nineveh Joins". Database created as part of the Ashurbanipal Library Project of the British Museum in 2005. This database is updated on a regular basis

Other publications can be found on my homepage.