Scholarship Project

Christopher Jones

Assistant Professor of History

34 Results

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article(s)

• "The Decline and Fall of the Assyrian Court Scholar: A Social Network-Based Examination.," Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East 2, Vol 2, No 2, 297-354. (December 2023)
• "Failed Coup: The Assassination of Sennacherib and Esarhaddon’s Struggle for the Throne, 681-680 B.C.," Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, Vol 10, No 2, 293-369. (November 2023)
• "Merodach-baladan II’s Escape to Turtle Island.," Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, No. 1, 56-59. (March 2023)
• "The Literary-Historical Memory of Sargon of Akkad in Assyria as the Background for Nimrod in Genesis 10:8-12.," Journal of Biblical Literature, Volume 141, Issue 2, 595-615. (December 2022)
• "Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology (Book Review)," Ancient Near Eastern Studies, 58, 357-358. (July 2021)
• "Identifying Centers of Domestication.," An Educator's Handbook for Teaching About the Ancient World, Volume 1, 203-205. (July 2020) (with Pinar Durgun (Edit))
• "New Light on the Assassination of Sennacherib.," Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, no. 2, 88-90. (June 2019)
• "Understanding ISIS’s Destruction of Antiquities as a Rejection of Nationalism.," Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Vol 6, No 1, 31-58. (July 2018)
• "In Battle Against ISIS, Saving Lives or Ancient Artifacts.," HyperAllergic. (April 2015)

Non-Peer Reviewed Journal Article(s)

• "How Lyotard Predicted the Decline of the Humanities.," Current. (January 2024)
• "Zenobia in Damascus: The Role of Classical Archaeology in Syrian Politics.," Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires. (July 2023)
• "The qurbutu: The Assyrian King’s Elite Bodyguard.," Ancient Warfare, 14, no. 6 (May-June 2021), 24-25. (May 2021)
• "The Centre of Learning Destroyed by ISIS in Iraq.," (June 2017)
• "Hatra’s Embattled History, from the Romans to ISIS.," Apollo: The International Art Magazine. (May 2017)
• "What Central Africa’s War on Poaching Can Teach Us About Fighting the Plunder of Antiquities.," HyperAllergic. (July 2016)
• "“Isid Neden Yok Ediyor?”," Aktüel Arkeoloji, No. 52, 14-23. (July 2016)
• "Another Treasure Lost in Iraq: The Story of Mar Behnam Monastery.," HyperAllergic. (June 2015)
• "What ISIS Destroys, Why, and Why We Must Document It.," HyperAllergic. (March 2015)

Review Article(s)

• "Origins of the Just War: Does Belief in an Independent Moral Standard Aid or Hinder Justice?," Current. (July 2024)
• "The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part II: Letters from Southern Babylonia (Book Review)," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Issue 391, 233-236. (May 2024)
• "Culture in Crisis: Preserving Cultural Heritage in Conflict Zones (Book Review)," Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, 15, No. 1, 68-77. (June 2018)

Other Article(s)

• "Social Network Data for Jones, The Decline and Fall of the Assyrian Court Scholar.," Zenodo. (October 2023)
• "Media Narratives, Heritage Destruction, and Universal Heritage: A Case Study of Palmyra.," The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction. (August 2023) (with Edited by José Antonio González Zarandona, Emma CunliffeORCID Icon, and Melathi Saldin)

Presentation(s)

• "The Case for Global Assyria." American Society of Overseas Research Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. (November 2023)
• "Power and Elite Competition in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Towards a Social Network-Based Model." American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. (November 2023)
• "'The Haters who Hate Assyria': Empire, Propaganda, and Identity Formation in Babylonia during the 7th-6th Centuries BC." Finnish Conference on Ancient Studies, Helsinski, Finland. (January 2023)
• "The Rise and Fall of the Assyrian Court Scholar." Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. (November 2022)
• "Neo-Babylonian Imperial Propaganda and the ‘Evil Empire’ of Assyria." American Society of Overseas Research Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. (November 2022)
• "The Neo-Assyrian Background of Genesis 10:1-4 and its Implications for Dating the Priestly Source." Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. (November 2021)
• "The Decline and Fall of the Assyrian Empire in Babylonia: An Organizational Communication Perspective." American Society of Overseas Research Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. (November 2021)
• "A Great King Without Rival: The Literary Memory of Sargon of Akkad in 8th-7th Century Assyria as a Background for Nimrod in Genesis 10:8-12." Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. (November 2019)
• "Removing shirk and jahiliyyah: ISIS’s Destruction of the Pre-Islamic Past as a Rejection of Nationalism." Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. (November 2017)

Award/Recognition(s)

• International Association for Assyriology Prize for Best First Article Awarded for “Failed Coup: The Assassination of Sennacherib and Esarhaddon’s Struggle for the Throne, 681-680 B.C.”, 2024

Dissertation

• "Power and Elite Competition in the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 745-612 B.C." (June 2024) at Columbia University