Scholarship and Biography
Madadh Richey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago's Department of Middle Eastern Studies, she taught briefly at the University of Chicago and Princeton University. Her book, Visions of Gods and Monsters: Divine Combat in Ancient Middle Eastern Art and Society is forthcoming with Oxford University Press; it explores social contexts and functions of divine-combat images in the visual culture of Mesopotamia and the Levant during the Iron Age (ca. 1175–550 BCE).
In addition to her visual culture interests, Madadh is an epigrapher of late-second- and first-millennium B.C.E. texts in Northwest Semitic languages. She has published newly discovered inscriptions in several dialects of Aramaic, Hebrew, Phoenician and Punic, and Ugaritic.
*Area researchers please note: The listing of publications ("Scholarship") on this page is nowhere near exhaustive, and the automated ScholarWorks system often pulls and posts incorrect or misleading metadata, especially for edited volumes or online preprint "publications." Managing this is not a process I find intuitive or that I prioritize, so please continue to rely on reading of and citation from actual publications! You should also feel free to request a current and accurate listing of publications from Madadh Richey, Brandeis University MS 054 415 South Street Waltham MA 02453 or richey@brandeis.edu.