Title:
Bēl and Marduk in the First and Late-Second Millennium BC
University:
University of Cambridge
Supervisor:
Dr Selena Wisnom & Dr Martin Worthington
Abstract:
My PhD research focuses on the god Marduk, who came to be the head of the Babylonian pantheon by the 1st Millennium BC. If people have heard of any Mesopotamian god, then it is probably Marduk, yet despite this, there are still large gaps in our knowledge of him. One aspect of this deity that has received almost no attention is the divine name commonly said to be held by him: Bēl (“Lord”). My research seeks to understand the role of this alternate name of Marduk in Mesopotamian theology in the late-second Millennium and the first Millennium BC.
Contact:
grh36@cam.ac.uk