Enrique Jiménez

Jiménez holds a chair in Ancient Near Eastern Literatures at LMU since 2018 and is the winner of a 2017 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award. He specialises in the literature and scholarly texts from ancient Mesopotamia, in particular from the first millennium BC. He is co-founder and co-director of the “Cuneiform Commentaries Project” (https://ccp.yale.edu/), funded by Yale University (2013–2016) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (Division of Research Programs “Scholarly Editions and Translations,” 2015–2018), which aims at making available the corpus of ancient Mesopotamian commentaries, the oldest exegetical treatises in the world, both to the scholarly community and to a more general audience. He is founder and PI of the “Electronic Babylonian Literature” project (http://www.ebl.lmu.de/), started with the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and director of the DFG/AHRC-funded project “Reading the Library of Ashurbanipal: a Multi-sectional Analysis of Assyriology’s Foundational Corpus” (2020–2023). With funds from the Gerda Henkel Foundation, he has recently started a program to conserve and publish the contents of the famous Sippar Library, together with Dr. Anmar A. Fadhil (College of Arts, University of Baghdad).