Netanel Anor’s research focuses on the different branches of Mesopotamian divination. He has especially studied the different literary genres relating to oracle and their significance in context of the extispicy ritual. In the frame of his doctoral and postdoctoral studies in the Freie Universität Berlin and the Tel Aviv University, Netanel has also published on related handbooks and manuals, dealing with bird and oil divination. Netanel is also interested in other fields of the Babylonian higher knowledge and has, in the frame of the Gods’ List project in Jena University, conducted research on the enumeration of gods in a verity of genres of the cuneiform literature.
Selected Publications
In Acadamic Journals:
"Bird in the Sky: Babylonian Bird Omen Collections, Astral Observations and the Manzāzu (with Yoram Cohen), Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale 115, 2021, p. 51-80.
“The Oil Omens from Hattuša: An Investigation of the History, Purposes and Transmission of a Babylonian Divination Compendium” (with Yoram Cohen), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 77, 2018, p. 195-206.
“Is the Liver a Reflection of the Sky?”, Aram 29, 2017, p. 195-206.
“Joseph Halévy and the “Sumerian Problem”: A Case of Essentialist Approach”, Philological Encounters 2, 2017, p. 321-345.
“Secret of Extispicy Revealed”, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Preprint 454, 2014, p.
In Collective Volumes:
"Babylonian Seers as Medical Practitioners" in: The Intelectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East: Compte Rendu de la 63e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Innsbruck,(Eisenbrauns), 2022, 477-484.
"Yaakov Peremen and the Notarikon: a Case of Anti-Sumerist Revival in Mid-Twentieth Century Palestine" in: Fink S. and Neumann H., Towards a History of Assyriology, submitted (Zaphon).
“Foreseeing the Future, Classifying the Present: On the Concepts of Law and Order in the Omen Literature”, in: Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East: Compte Rendu de la 59e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Eisenbrauns), 2021, 1-9.
“The Seer and his Client in the Ritual of Extispicy”, in: Johnson J. C., Patients and Patronage: at the Intersection of the Mesopotamian Technical Disciplines and their Clients, (Eisenbrauns), 2020, 115-127. "Forging an Empire The Borders of Carchemish According to CTH 50 (KUB 19.27)" (with Yoram Cohen), in Cammarosano M., Devecchi E. and Viano M., talugaeš witteš Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Stefano de Martino on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (Zaphon: Kasion 2), 2020, p. 71-79.
“An Old Babylonian Oil Omen Tablet from the British Museum”, in Panayotov S. and Vacin L., Magic and Medicine in Mesopotamia (Brill), 2018, p. 25-35.
“Mesopotamian Divinatory Inquiry: a Private or a State Matter?”, Private and State: Compte Rendu de la 58e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Eisenbrauns), 2017, p. 71-78.