Ami Asyag is currently a PhD Honor student (president’s stipend) in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The Hebrew University. In his doctoral thesis he examines the continuity and change in the liturgy of Uruk in ancient Mesopotamia, in the second and first millennium BCE. He was an MA Honor student in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and wrote his MA thesis on Sumerian Emesal prayers, investigating an early Old Babylonian corpus from the city of Ĝirsu (modern Telloh) with a focus on local features and traditions related to the region of Lagash and its pantheon, and on the syllabic orthography in which these texts are written. Ami holds a BA in General History from the Open University of Israel (Summa cum laude).

Publications:

Wasserman N. and Asyag A., “Addenda et Corrigenda to N. Wasserman, The Flood: The Akkadian Sources. A New Edition, Commentary, and a Literary Discussion, Leuven-Paris-Bristol, CT: Peeters, 2020”, NABU 2021 no. 94.