Raleigh Heth

Assistant Teaching Professor, Purdue University

ORCID 0000-0002-7235-6749

Raleigh Heth (PhD, Notre Dame) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Purdue University’s Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program. He has published on matters dealing with ancient Near Eastern languages and history, including co-authoring A Student’s Vocabulary of Akkadian in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions (Eisenbrauns, 2025). His individual work deals primarily with the reception of the religious and cultural heritage of Mesopotamia in Biblical literature, focusing particularly on ancient Near Eastern mythic texts.

BOOKS BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR

Sports and Games in the Ancient Near East

Raleigh Heth

Collected essays from specialists in the fields of archaeology, iconography, and textual studies highlight ways in which sports and games were present within the cultic and mythological aspects of life in the ancient Near East. As importantly, they also call attention to the role that sports and games played in ancient societies. READ MORE

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