Prof. Dr. Enrique Jiménez

Ausbildung

2008-2013
PhD degree in Sciences of Religions, at the University Institute of Sciences of Religions, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Grade: Cum Laude (highest degree)
Dissertation title: “La imagen de los vientos en la literatura babilónica” (“The image of the winds in Babylonian literature”)
Dissertation advisor: Barbara Böck
Outstanding Dissertation Award, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

2010
Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA, equivalent to a Master Degree): “La imagen de los vientos en la literatura mágica cuneiforme” (“The image of the winds in cuneiform magic literature”)

2007-2012
Degree in Hebrew Philology. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Faculty of Philology. With Honors.

2003-2008
Degree in Classical Philology. Speciality: Indoeuropean Linguistics. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Faculty of Philology. With Honors.

Akademische Stationen

Jul 2018 – present
Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Literatures (W3) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Apr 2018 – Jul 2018
Substitute Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Literatures (W3) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Feb 2017 – Mar 2018
Post-Doctoral Contract at the Department of Hebrew and Aramaic Studies (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

Sep 2013 – Dec 2016
Post-doctoral Contract (Lecturer) at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Yale University), funded by a Provost’s Grant, to work at the “Cuneiform Commentaries Project”

Preise und Auszeichnungen

2024 ERC Consolidator Grant
2017 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award
2015 First prize for the first article published after PhD, International Assyriology Association
2015 Special University Graduation Award for Hebrew Philology, awarded by Universidad Complutense de Madrid
3 Oct 2014 Outstanding Dissertation Award, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2010 National Award for Outstanding University Academic Performance, awarded by the Spanish Education Secretary (First prize)
2009 Special University Graduation Award for Classical Philology, awarded by Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2004
National Award for Secondary Education 2003 Special Graduation Award for Secondary Education

Forschungsmittel

2025–2026 Fritz Thyssen Stiftung 20.25.0.020AA. Project The Library of Assurbanipal in Türkiye. Publication of the Nineveh Collection (Nv.) in the Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri. 21.600 €

2025–2030 ERC Consolidator Grant Project Rewriting the End of Cuneiform Culture (RECC). 1.997.950 €

2024–2026
Fonds zur Förderung der Lehre (LMU Munich) Project Keilschriftunterricht im KI-Zeitalter (KUKI). Entwicklung eines Forschungsinstruments für Keilschriftpaläographie durch Studierende. 21.911 €

2024
With Prof. Dr. Walther Sallaberger (LMU Munich). Fritz Thyssen Stiftung 2024-00226. Antrag auf Tagungsförderung: Cuneiform Artefacts from Archaeological Contexts: New Perspectives. 11.484 €

2024–2025 With Prof. Dr. Anmar A. Fadhil (University of Baghdad). Gerda Henkel AZ 06/BE/20 Literarische Keilschrifttafeln im Irakischen Nationalmuseum. 24.822,40 €

2023 Investitionsfonds von LMUexcellent for The “Cuneiform at the End of Civilization” (CEC) Project. 49.975 €
2022–2047 With Prof. Dr. Karen Radner and Prof. Dr. Walther Sallaberger (LMU Munich). Project in the Akademienprogramm, Cuneiform Artefacts of Iraq in Context (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften). 372.150 € per year.
2021–2029 With Dr. Birgit Christiansen (LMU Munich) and Prof. Dr. Daniel Schwemer (Universität Würzburg). DFG Sachbeihilfe – Langfristvorhaben. Project Das hethitische Corpus divinatorischer Texte. Digitale Edition und kulturhistorische Erschließung. 198.044 € (Jiménez part, first phase).
2019 and 2021–2023 With Prof. Dr. Anmar A. Fadhil (University of Baghdad). Gerda Henkel Förderschwerpunkt Patrimonies, for the project Literarische Keilschrifttafeln im Irakischen Nationalmuseum (2020 - 2022). Projekte: „Literarische Texte aus der Sippar-Bibliothek“ und „Literarische Bruchstücke aus Uruk“. 39.728 €
2020–2023 With Dr. Jon Taylor (The British Museum). UK-German Funding Initiative in the Humanities, from Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research Project Reading the Library of Ashurbanipal: A Multi-sectional Analysis of Assyriology’s Foundational Corpus. 345.536 € (German part)
2019 With Prof. Yoram Cohen (Tel Aviv University). Joint Research Project on Data Science (Statistic & Informatics) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) - Tel Aviv University (TAU). 46.250 €
2018–2023 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, for the research project “Electronic Babylonian Literature” (eBL). Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 1.650.000 €
2015–2018 With Prof. Eckart Frahm (Yale University). Program “Scholarly Editions and Translations” for the “Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP): Editing History’s Earliest Hermeneutic Texts, Online and in Print.” National Endowment for the Humanities. 290.000 $

Publikationen

Monogafien

1. Middle and Neo-Babylonian Literary Texts in the Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection, Jena (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2022). DOI: 10.13173/9783447118811 (Open Access)

2. The Babylonian Disputation Poems. With Editions of Palm and Vine, the Series of the Poplar, the Series of the Spider, and the Story of the Poor, Forlorn Wren (Leiden: Brill, 2017). DOI: 10.1163/9789004336261

3. La imagen de los vientos en la literatura babilónica (“The Image of the Winds in Babylonian Literature”), Madrid, 2013 (PhD thesis). Available at: http://eprints.ucm.es/26391/

Edited volumes

4. Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Epic of Creation, with J. Haubold, S. Helle, and S. Wisnom, in Library of Babylonian Literature, Bloomsbury (2024). DOI: 10.5040/9781350297425 (Open Access).

5. Disputation Literature in the Near East and Beyond, with C. Mittermayer, in Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records, De Gruyter (2020). DOI: 10.1515/9781501510274

6. “From the Electronic Babylonian Literature Lab,” article series in the peer-reviewed journal Kaskal. Rivista di storia, ambienti e culture del Vicino Oriente Antico (5 installments have appeared with 48 contributions, 2019–2024).

Artikel

7. “A Large-Scale Dataset of Annotated Cuneiform Sign Images for Digital Palaeography,” with O. Lewenstein, D. López, C. Dankwardt, L. Alrawi, M. F., Grill, B. Mak, A. Setälä, F. Gori, A. Hätinen, F. Rauchhaus, Zs. Földi, in Journal of Open Humanities Data, 12: 53 (2026), pp. 1–8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.503

8. “More Gilgameš Fragments,” Kaskal NS 2 (2025) pp. 6–12. DOI: 10.30687/KASKAL/2036-5845/2025/01/002

9. “Literary Texts from the Sippar Library V: A Hymn in Praise of Babylon and the Babylonians,” with Anmar A. Fadhil, in Iraq 86 (2024), 21–78. DOI: 10.1017/irq.2024.23

10. “The Latest Dated Non-Astrological Tablet,” with T. Mitto, in N.A.B.U., Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2024/47.

11. “Sign Detection for Cuneiform Tablets,” with Y. Cobanoglu, L. Sáenz, I. Khait, in it - Information Technology 66 (2024). DOI: 10.1515/itit-2024-0028

12. “More Gilgameš,” Kaskal 20 (2023) pp. 103–107. DOI: 10.1400/296867

13. “Reconstruction of Cuneiform Literary Texts as Text Matching,” with F. Simonjetz, J. Laasonen, Y. Cobanoglu, and A. Fraser, in Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pp. 13712–13721. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1197

14. “Stylistic Classification of Cuneiform Signs Using Convolutional Neural Networks,” with V. Yugay K. Paliwal, Y. Cobanoglu, L. Sáenz, E. Gogokhia, and Sh. Gordin, in it - Information Technology 66 (2024). DOI: 10.1515/itit-2023-0114

15. “Transliterated Cuneiform Tablets of the Electronic Babylonian Library Platform,” with Y. Cobanoglu, J. Laasonen, F. Simonjetz, I. Khait, S. Cohen, Zs. Földi, A. Hätinen, A. C. Heinrich, T. Mitto, G. Rozzi, and L. Sáenz, in Journal of Open Humanities Data, 10: 19 (2024), pp. 1–7. DOI: 10.5334/johd.148

16. “Literary Texts from the Sippar Library IV: A “Macranthropic” Hymn to Ninurta,” with Anmar A. Fadhil, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 113 (2023), pp. 193–215. DOI: 10.1515/za-2023-0014

17. “Further Fragments of Gilgameš,” Kaskal 19 (2022) pp. 137–138. DOI: 10.1400/291716

18. “A Babylonian Manuscript of the Great Hymn to Ištar,” with Geraldina Rozzi, Kaskal 19 (2022) pp. 169–176. DOI: 10.1400/291716

19. “Literary Texts from the Sippar Library III: ‘Eriš šummi’, A Syncretistic Hymn to Marduk,” with Anmar A. Fadhil, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 112 (2022), pp. 229–274. DOI: 10.1515/za-2022-0004

20. “Constantly do I see him (SB Gilgameš I 147-158),” Kaskal 18 (2021), pp. 161-162. DOI: 10.1400/288172

21. “Ninurta Lore in Neo-Babylonian Nippur: Two Exercise Tablets with Excerpts from Lugale, Angim, and Anzû,” with Adrian C. Heinrich, Kaskal 18 (2021), pp. 163–169. DOI: 10.1400/288172

22. “Literarische Bruchstücke aus Uruk. Teil 5: Fragmente babylonischer Literatur,” with Anmar A. Fadhil, in Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 14 (2021), pp. 48–65. ISBN: 978-3-7861-2886-1.

23. “NBC 3171: A recarved Old Babylonian-Kassite seal,” with A.W. Lassen, in Ash-sharq 6 (2022) pp. 58–63. At https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/ash-sharq/article/view/1313

24. “Eine Spätbabylonische Synkretistische Hymne an Nabû,” with H. Agnethler, E. Gogokhia, A. Pilloni, and A. Setälä, in Journal of Cuneiform Studies 74 (2022) pp. 205–222. DOI: 10.1086/719980

25. “Der zweite Beleg. Drei neue akkadische Wörter,” Orientalia 90 (2021), pp. 289–291. DOI: 10.32060/Orientalia.2.2021.289-291

26. “Literarische Bruchstücke aus Uruk. Teil 4: Eine Litanei,” with Anmar A. Fadhil, in Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 13 (2020), pp. 232-260. ISBN: 978-3-7861-2860-1

27. “Literary Texts from the Sippar Library II: The Epic of Creation,” with Anmar A. Fadhil, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 111 (2021), pp. 191-230. DOI: 10.1515/za-2021-0006

28. “Taqīš-Gula and Gimil-Gula, Scholars of Nazi-Maruttaš,” Kaskal 17 (2020), pp. 232-234. DOI: 10.1400/283204

29. “New Fragments of Gilgameš Chiefly from the ‘Babylon Collection’,” Kaskal 17 (2020), pp. 236-246. DOI: 10.1400/283204

30. “Reading Akkadian cuneiform using natural language processing,” with Shai Gordin, Gai Gutherz, Ariel Elazary, Avital Romach, Enrique Jiménez, Jonathan Berant, and Yoram Cohen, in PLoS ONE 15(19) (2020). DOI: 15(10): 10.1371/journal.pone.0240511

31. “The Distant Plans of the Gods (Ludlul II 36-38),” Kaskal 16 (2019), pp. 79-81. DOI: 10.1400/278197

32. “Road to the Cedar Forest (Gilgameš III 75–84),” Kaskal 16 (2019), pp. 76-77. DOI: 10.1400/278197

33. “Literarische Bruchstücke aus Uruk. Teil 3: Fragmente astrologischer und terrestrischer Omina,” with Anmar A. Fadhil, in Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 12 (2019), pp. 68-106. ISBN: 978 3 7861 2852 6.

34. “Nomen Omen,” in N.A.B.U., Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2019/100.

35. “Marginalia on the Cuneiform Commentaries Project. No. 2: An Incantation for Childbirth,” in N.A.B.U., Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2019/77.

36. “Literary Texts from the Sippar Library I: Two Babylonian Classics,” with Anmar A. Fadhil, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 109 (2019), pp. 155–176. DOI: 10.1515/za-2019-0012.

37. “Sayings of Kings and Scholars”, Aula Orientalis 37 (2019), pp. 371-372. ISSN: 0212-5730.

38. “Good News (šimûtu)!,” with A. M. Butts, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 138 (2018), pp. 859-862. DOI: 10.7817/jameroriesoci.138.4.0859

39. “Literarische Bruchstücke aus Uruk. Teil 2: Zwei Tafeln für die Berechnung des adannu,” with Anmar A. Fadhil, in Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 11 (2018), pp. 130-158. ISBN: 978 3 7861 2829 8.

40. “New Fragments and Extracts of Akkadian Disputations and Fables Chiefly from Babylonian Schools,” in Orientalia 87 (2018), pp. 147-158.

41. “‘As Your Name Indicates’. Philological Arguments in Akkadian Disputations,” in Journal of Near Eastern History 5 (2018), pp. 87–105. DOI: 10.1515/janeh-2018-0007

42. “Marginalia on the Cuneiform Commentaries Project. No. 1: A Proverb from the Series Sidu,” in N.A.B.U., Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2018/46.

43. “Exit the ‘Oath with the Feet of a Goat’,” in N.A.B.U., Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2018/27.

44. “Literarische Bruchstücke aus Uruk, Teil I: Die W 25366-Tafeln,” with Anmar A. Fahil, in Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 10 (2017), pp. 158-173. ISBN: 978 3 8030 0224 2

45. “Explaining Diagnosis. Two New Commentaries on the Diagnostic Series Sagig,” with E. Schmidtchen, in Welt des Orients 47 (2017), pp. 216-241. DOI: 10.13109/wdor.2017.47.2.216

46. “A Kassite Seal Addressed to Marduk”, Aula Orientalis 35 (2017), pp. 176-177. ISSN: 0212-5730

47. “Cuneiform Texts at the University of Wyoming,” with C. Liu, in Akkadica 137/2 (2016), pp. 195-202.

48. “May the Reader Not Withhold the Tablet! On a Formula in Late Babylonian Colophons”, Babel und Bibel 9 (2016), pp. 227-239.

49. “Four Neo-Assyrian Slave Sale Records from Marqasi (Kahramanmaraş) in the Erimtan Museum (Ankara) and Elsewhere,” with S. Adalı and K. Radner, in Altorientalische Forschungen 42/2 (2016), pp. 153-172. DOI: 10.1515/aofo-2015-0014

50. “Two Neo-Assyrian Slave Sale Records from Marqasi (Kahramanmaraş) in a Collection at Gaziantep,” with A. Fıstıkçi, and S. F. Adalı, in Altorientalische Forschungen 42/2 (2016), pp. 173-183. DOI: 10.1515/aofo-2015-0015

51. “Loose Threads of Tradition. Two Late Hemerological Compilations,” in Journal of Cuneiform Studies 68 (2016), pp. 197-227. DOI: 10.5615/jcunestud.68.2016.0197

52. “Myth, Ritual, and Interpretation. The Commentary on Enūma eliš I-VII and a Commentary on Elamite Month Names,” with E. Frahm, in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 4 (2015), pp. 293-343. DOI: 10.1628/219222715X14507102280856

53. “A playful writing of the name of Babylon,” in N.A.B.U., Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2015/81.

54. “The ‘Prostration Hemerology’ Revisited. An Everyman’s Hemerology at the King’s Court,” with Selim F. Adalı, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 105 (2015), pp. 154-191. DOI: 10.1515/za-2015-0025

55. “On the Commentary to the Code of Hammurapi and the Babylonian God of Ordeals,” in N.A.B.U., Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2014/84.

56. “New fragments of Gilgamesh and other literary texts from Kuyunjik,” in Iraq 76 (2014), pp. 99-121. DOI: 10.1017/irq.2014.2

Granted First Prize by the International Assyriology Association for the first article published after PhD

57. “‘The Creation of the King’: A Reappraisal,” in Kaskal. Rivista di storia, ambienti e culture del Vicino Oriente Antico 10 (2013), pp. 235-254. DOI: 10.1400/217189

58. “Three Colophons,” in N.A.B.U., Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2013/92.

In Vorbereitung

Cuneiform Commentaries from Babylonia and Assyria (with E. Frahm and M. Frazer), in Writings from the Ancient World, SBL Press (anthology of commentaries, submission expected in December 2022)

The Aluzinnu Text: An Ancient Mesopotamian Omnibus Parody (monograph, long-term project)

Seven more articles from the series “Literarische Bruchstücke aus Uruk” are planned

“‘Look at Babylon, Go Up to the Esangil!’ A Babylonian Literary Prayer of Long Lineage and Lasting Fortune” (article)

“An Extract from Atraḫasīs in an Achaemenid School Tablet from Nippur. On Literary Education in Neo-Babylonian Nippur” (article)

“Furious Lord, Still Your Heart! A Long-Lived Literary Prayer to Marduk (Marduk 1)” (article)

“Young Anu-bēlšunu. Two Rare Tablets From Hellenistic Uruk” (article)