Dr. Justin Cale Johnson

Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (FU)

J. Cale Johnson studied Assyriology, Comparative Semitics and Linguistics at UCLA, receiving his PhD in Assyriology in 2004 with a dissertation on applicative constructions in Sumerian and the role of specificity in their interpretation (a substantially revised version appeared in 2010 under the title “Unaccusativity and the double object construction in Sumerian” [Vienna: LIT]). Since coming to Berlin in 2008, he has focused on the early history of writing, particularly the decipherment of UD.GAL.NUN (encoded mythological materials from the Early Dynastic period) as well as the role of documentary formats in legal procedures and questions of legal and administrative jurisdiction.

 

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+49 30 838-57394
 

Activities

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"Dreaming of regime change: The role of oneiromancy in Mesopotamian coups d’état"
part of the Conference Knowledge to die for: transmission of prohibited and esoteric knowledge through space and time

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"Origo of Deixis, Decorum and the Elaboration of Text-Artifactual Genre "
part of the Workshop Perception and Representation of Space

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"The generative potential of spatial representation"
part of the Workshop New Year's Workshop of Area D

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"The Sumerian Urban Topographic Terms"
part of the Workshop Urban Topography as a Reflection of Society: Language, Image, Archaeology

 

Publications

 
In Topoi

 
further Publications


forthcoming Review: W. Horowitz / U. Gabbay / F. Vukosavovic, eds., A Woman of Valor: Jerusalem Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Joan Goodnick Westenholz, in: WZKM
  Review: S. Parpola / R. Whining, eds., Assyrian-English-Assyrian Dictionary, in: BSOAS.