Dr Renate van Dijk-Coombes

Lecturer


PhD (Ancient Cultures), Stellenbosch University 

​​MA (Ancient Near Eastern Cultures), University of South Africa

BA Hons (Ancient Near Eastern Cultures), University of South Africa​
 

Office: Arts 336

Email: [email protected]

Academia.edu Profile: https://sun.academia.edu/RenateMarianvanDijkCoombes
 

Curriculum Vitae


Areas of Specialisation

  • Ancient Western Asian and North African Cultures
  • Visual and Material culture of Ancient Western Asia and North Africa
  • ​Ancient Western Asian Mythology
  • ​Gender Issues in Ancient Western​ Asia
     

Courses Taught in 2024

  • AK 114 Introduction to West Asian and North African Cultures
  • AK 251/351 Ancient West Asian Mythology

Courses Taught in 2025

  • AK 114 Introduction to West Asian and North African Cultures
  • AK 241/351 Power and Propaganda: Mesopotamian Rulers and Royalty

Current Research Projects

  • Publication of Mesopotamian objects in the South African Collections

Selected Publications - Books
 

 

​Selected Publications - Articles and Essays
 

  • Resistance, Rage and Reenactment: Trauma Responses in the Sumerian Rape Narratives, in Narrating Rape: Lacunae and Shifting Perspectives in (Biblical) Literature and Popular Cultures. Ed. Claasens, J., Graybill, R. & Maier, C. London: SCM Press. (2024.​)
  • Revisiting the 'kriegerischer Gott' of the Akkadian Period. Religions ​Special Issue: “Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and Religion", Religions 14/9 2023.​ (1215): 1-18.
  • The Many Faces of Enheduanna's Inana: Literary Images of Inana and the Visual Culture from the Akkadian to the Old Babylonian Period, in From Stone Age to Stellenbosch: Studies on the Ancient Near East in Honour of Izak (Sakkie) Cornelius. Ed. van Dijk-Coombes, R.M., Swanepoel, L.C. and Kotzé, G.R. p.25-44. 2021.
  • Towards a New Understanding of the Curse of Eve: Female Sexual Pain in Genesis 3:16 and Other Ancient Texts. Scriptura (2020) 119/1:1-14.
  • The Seated Figure from Rāmat Rāḥẹ̄l and the Neo-Assyrian Throne-Chariot. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 134/2:163-176, Taf. (2018) 13-14.
  • Lions and Winged Things: A Proposed Reconstruction of the Object on the Right of the Lower Register of the Mythological Side of Eannatum's Stele of the Vultures. Welt des Orients (2017) 47/2:198-215.
  • ​Cylinder Seals in the Collections of Iziko Museums of South Africa in Cape Town and the Department of Ancient Studies of Stellenbosch University. Akroterion (2016) 61:1-23.
  • A Neo-Sumerian Clay Nail of Gudea in the Collection of the Department of Ancient Studies of Stellenbosch University. Antiguo Oriente (2016.​) 14:53-64.

     

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