Do you have an article looking for a good home? We'd love to be that space. Use the QR code to find our submission guidelines.

You've just read Avar 4.2, but Avar 5 begins our Rolling Issues! This means we will have your work online first, so you don't have to wait until all articles are compiled to share. We'd love your submissions: avarjournal.com/avar/submiss...

Last but not least in Avar 4.2 is Matthew Ong's article, "Broad-scale Patterns in the Distribution of Ethnic Names in the Neo-Babylonian Oracc Corpus." 🧵(1/3)

Samuel Boyd's article, the fourth in our recent issue, is called "Birds of a Feather: Animal Criticism, Domestication, and The Use of Bird Imagery and Metaphor in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes." 🧵 (1/3)

Our third article in the latest issue is by David Mulder, entitled "Temple/Herd: Mesopotamian Visions of Animal Community in the Early Third Millennium BCE." 🧵 (1/3)

The second article in our latest issue is called "Tiny Dancers: An Archaeological View of Hidden Figures on the Mari Plaque," by Anne Porter. 🧵(1/3)

It's Monday, and we're featuring the first article in our recently released issue by Ada Taggar Cohen, "Divine Approval and Support of the King Going into War: The Case of King Saul, Biblical and Hittite Descriptions." 🧵(1/3)

We're following up on your weekend homework.

Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East Vol. 4 No. 2 (2025) avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v... @avartnp.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social #openaccess

Need some weekend reading? Avar 4.2 is LIVE! avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

We're sending proofs out and getting excited for you all to enjoy Avar 4.2 before ringing in the New Year!

We are thrilled that, 2026 onwards, we are moving to the online-first model!

Hey @asor-research.bsky.social and #aarsbl25 attendees: three of our four journal editors are in Boston and would love to talk with you about submitting your work to us. Come find Eric Trinka, Isaac Alderman, and/or Alexiana Fry (@alexianafry.bsky.social) if you have questions or an idea!

We are pleased to announce the long-awaited news: Avar is transitioning into a hybrid style, online-first model beginning with issue 5.1! See our announcement at avarjournal.com/avar/announc....

We're excited to announce our news NEXT WEEK as ASOR, AAR, and SBL fast approach!

We announce our news THIS MONTH!

We can not wait to share with you what's coming next (besides another issue still to release this year)!

The countdown begins. One month until our announcement about a change for AVAR!

We're slowly getting edits back for the articles you'll soon read for AVAR 4.2!

We're a young journal, so we are back to our current issue this Monday: AVAR 4.1, a special issue on Mobility and Migration in the ANE! avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

GOOD MONDAY MORNING! AVAR 3.2 has three articles, from @alexianafry.bsky.social, Jacob Dahl, Robert Miller II, and Jonathon Riley. avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

AVAR 3.1 holds a host of admirable articles from Timothy Hogue, Eric Wagner, Emanuel Pfoh, and Ekaterina Kozlova. ENJOY: avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

This Monday, we're featuring AVAR 2.2, a special issue spearheaded by Zachary Rubin on Knowledge Construction in the ANE. Articles are by @sophushelle.bsky.social, @cwjones.bsky.social, Christian Casey, @nabalkattu.bsky.social, Walker Rhea, and Kay White! avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

Another Monday, another archive! AVAR 2.1 was special issue "Parenthood in the ANE" edited by Kristine Henriksen Garroway, with articles from Katrien De Graef, Luciana Urbano, Agnes Garcia-Ventura, Mireia López-Bertran, Sarah Fein, Anja Marschall, and Carol Meyers: avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

More archives coming at you this Monday, with issue 1.2! Articles about children, materiality, and color can be found, written by Kristine Henriksen Garroway, Jeremy D. Smoak, David Bosworth, Lucia Tosatto, and Ellena Lyell: avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

While we start working away at issue 4.2 for you, check out our archives! Our first issue (1.1), "Deviance in the ANE", features articles from @drrebekah.bsky.social, @moudhy.bsky.social, Ilan Peled, @katherinesouthwood.bsky.social, Ben Dewar, and Melanie Wasmuth: avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

You can still submit your article to us for Issue 4.2 TODAY! Check out our submissions checklist and SEND IT. avarjournal.com/avar/submiss...

The past seven Mondays have featured 7/8 of our latest special issue (4.1) articles. We hope you've enjoyed them as much as we have. Let us know what you think!

The deadline for submitting your article to Issue 4.2 is one week away (August 1)! We'd love to see your work featured with us. avarjournal.com/avar/announc...

Another Monday, another article for you! Gillian Glass' "Redefining Diaspora as Home through Realised Metaphor: The Polisification of Aseneth" does exactly what the title claims, demonstrating how biblical tradition is negotiated in the novel: (1/3) 🧵 avarjournal.com/avar/article...

It's Monday, and we've got another article for you! This special issue features a methodological article from a project @ucph.bsky.social, written by Ida Hartmann, @alexianafry.bsky.social, Kacper Ziemba, and Frederik Poulsen: (1/3) 🧵 avarjournal.com/avar/article...

New Monday, New Article Feature! Today, we're featuring @alexianafry.bsky.social and Eric Trinka's article that helps readers see the relationality that the first four articles of the special issue highlight: (1/3) 🧵 avarjournal.com/avar/article...

Enjoying our latest issue? We'd love to have your work featured in our next one! Our upcoming issue is an open call, submissions due on August 1. avarjournal.com/avar/announc...

It's MONDAY, which means it is time to highlight another article from our recent issue. Allison Wolf shares in "A Feminist Account of Migration Justice: An Overview," how she has conceptualized the study of oppression in mobility: (1/3) 🧵 avarjournal.com/avar/article...

It's another Monday, but don't worry - we've got another article feature! Today we're highlighting Ipek Demir's article, "Diaspora Theorizing and the Diasporas of the Middle East": (1/3)🧵 avarjournal.com/avar/article...

Excited to share this article I wrote for the special issue of AVAR journal on migration and mobility in the Ancient Near East: "Archaeology and Migration: The Journey Towards a Relational World". It's open access 🌟

Happy Monday! We're featuring @meganjdaniels.bsky.social article today, "Archaeology and Migration: The Journey Towards a Relational World": (1/3) 🧵 avarjournal.com/avar/article...

We hope you enjoyed a happy weekend reading AVAR 4.1! Today, we're featuring Catherine Cameron's article "Captives Were Migrants Too": (1/3) 🧵https://avarjournal.com/avar/article/view/2863

New issue of Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025) #openaccess @avartnp.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social @meganjdaniels.bsky.social @idamhartmann.bsky.social ‬ Mobility and Migration in the ANE avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

It's official! The special issue on Mobility and Migration in the ANE (4.1) is LIVE: avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

While we begin to typeset our themed Spring issue on "Migration and Mobility in ANE and the Bible," we hope you consider submitting to some of our current calls! A 🧵(1/4):

While we're working on our Spring special issue (coming soon!), just a reminder that we have a Fall issue that is both thematic AND open call. We'd love to see your work: avarjournal.com/avar/announc...

New year new... submission to our open issue? We'd love to see your work in our Fall release. See the call here: avarjournal.com/avar/announc...

Did you see our message on the AGADE server or just delete it? Our open issue 4.2 has been open - and is still open call - but we are looking to feature a special section on (non-human) animals and animality in the ANE. Interested? avarjournal.com/avar/submiss...

Hi #SBLAAR24 attendees! Want to talk about the potential for your paper becoming an article for our next open issue? One of our editors, @alexianafry.bsky.social, would love to connect with you!

Our CFP is open & open for issue 4.2! Submissions are due April 1, 2025 for a Fall 2025 release. Presenting at #SBLAAR24 or at ASOR and do interdisciplinary work? We'd love to have your presentations come full circle with us:

As the summer ends, consider AVAR for your next submission! We currently have two calls for special issues open until July 1, 2025, but we also run an open issue once a year.

For your weekend reading, see @alexianafry.bsky.social's "Layers of Abjection: The Unnamed Pilegesh of Judges 19 and Us" from our recent issue. www.avarjournal.com/avar/article...

It's back! Jacob Dahl's "Where Have All the Ur III Seals Gone?" is ready to read: www.avarjournal.com/avar/article...

Dahl's article will be re-posted sometime this week! Thank you for your patience.