Researcher Profile and Settings

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Research Interests

• Judaism in Modern Time
• Modern Hebrew
• Jewish Studies
• メソポタミア
• ヒッタイト
• 古代近東
• 聖書
• Mesopotamia
• Hittite
• Ancient Near East
• Bible

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences / History - Asia/Africa / Hittitology

Research History

• 1987-1995 Study of languages of the Ancient Near East (Aramaic, Ugaritic, Accadian, Sumerian, Ancient Egyptioan Hieroglyphs, Hittite, Arabic)
• 1994-2000 Religious, historical and legal issues in the study of the Bible and Ancient Near East
• 2001- Comparative study of Ancient Near East Priesthood

Research Experience

• School of Theology, Graduate School of Theology, Professor, 2004/04 - Today
• Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Monotheistic Religions （CISMOR), Director, 2018/04 - 2023/03
• Visiting Professor, research fellow, Max Weber Center, Erfurt University, 2023/01 - 2023/02
• Visiting professor, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, Researcher, 2020/02 - 2020/03
• Visiting Professor, The Faculty of Theology, The University of Zurich, Swiss National Science Foundation research grant, 2017/08 - 2017/09
• Lady Davis Fellow, Department of Bible, Visiting Professor researcher, 2014/10 - 2015/02
• The University of Chicago, USA, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Visiting Professor, 2014/04 - 2014/09

Education

• ベングリオン大学, 聖書学・古代近東学, 聖書と古代近東の祭司制, - 2004
• Ben-Gurion University, The Department for Bible and Ancient Near East Studies, Priesthood in the Bible and Ancient Near East, - 2004
• アムステルダム大学, 考古学-歴史研究所, ヒッタイト語，ヒッタイト史, - 1994
• Amsterdam University, The Archaeological-Historical Institute, Hittite language and History, - 1994
• ヘブライ大学, ユダヤ史学科, ユダヤ史と法思想, - 1992
• Hebrew University, The Department for Jewish History, Jewish History and legal thought, - 1992
• ヘブライ大学, 聖書学部, 聖書学，アッシリア学，エジプト学, - 1987
• Hebrew University, -, - 1987

Degree

• Ph.D., Ben-Gurion University
• M.A., Hebrew University

Committee Memberships

• 理事, 2019/04 - Today, 日本ユダヤ学会, Society

MISC

• Hittite Royal Administrative Concept and its Representation in Cultic Texts: The Implementing of Cosmic Order
  Ada Taggar Cohen
  Feb. 2025
• Female Status in the Hittite Cult as Mirrored in Royal Ideology and Prescribed Rituals
  Ada Taggar Cohen
  Dec. 2024
• Tracing the Ritual Body: : Catherine Bell and Rituals of the Ancient Biblical World
  Ada Taggar Cohen; Richard E. DeMaris; Jonathan Schwieber
  Oct. 2024
• “Ritual Performance and Hittite Royal Ideology in Dialogue with Catherine Bell’s Power of Ritualization,”
  Ada Taggar Cohen
  Apr. 2024
• “Rhetoric and Style in Hittite išḫiul-Texts and in The Hebrew Bible," in The Shamir, the Letters, the Writing and the Tablets (Mishnah Avot 5:6): Studies in Honor of Professor Shamir Yona, edited by Mayer I. Gruber, Jonathan Yogev, Daniel Sivan, Loren T. Stuckenbruck, and Eliyahu Assis, Jerusalem: Ostracon Press
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  249 - 261, Dec. 2023
• “The Hittite Case of Royal Women in the Cult: The Queen and the NIN.DINGIR (CTH 714 and CTH 738)”
  Ada Taggar Cohen
  ORIENT, 58 21 - 34, Apr. 2023
• “Hittite Royal Ideology and the Uniqueness of the Priestess Titled NIN.DINGIR”
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Women in Religion in the Ancient Near East and Asia; series SANER 30), 141 - 162, Mar. 2023
• コロナ禍のユダヤ教: 超正統派ユダヤ人はなぜ感染防止対策に従うことが出来なかったのか
  ユダヤ・イスラエル研究第, (36) 40 - 45, Feb. 2023
• "Divine Gift: Sacrifice of Game and Domesticated Animals in Hittite and Biblical Cultures" in Human Interaction with the Natural World in Wisdom Literature and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Tova L. Forti. Edited by Mordechai Cogan, Katharine J. Dell, and David Glatt-Gilad
  Ada taggar Cohen
  LHBOTS, 702 246 - 259, 2023
• “Pilgrimage in the Ancient Near East: The Hittite Texts and the Hebrew Bible,” in Pilgrimage through the Ages: In Religious and Non-Religious Context - The 11th CISMOR Conference on Jewish Studies: CISMOR Series of Online Lectures for the Academic Year 2021-2022. (Edited by Ada Taggar Cohen and Doron B. Cohen; Published 2023 by CISMOR, Doshisha University), 66-89.
  Ada Taggar Cohen
  Conference on Jewish Studies, CISMOR, Doshisha University, 11 66 - 89, Jan. 2023, Summary international conference
  

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• “War at the Command of the Gods”
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  thetorah.com, Apr. 2022, Introduction commerce magazine
  

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• The Religious Cultural Heritage of the Hittites and the Hebrew Bible Description of the Ancient Israelite Religion: A Transmission of Concepts
  Ada Taggar Cohen
  Cultural Diversity in the Ancient Near East: Archaeological and Textual Aspects - Proceedings of an International Conference on the Ancient Near Eastern World held at Doshisha University April 13-14, 2019 (Edited by Ada Taggar Cohen; Kyoto: Center for Interdisciplinary Study of the Monotheistic Religions, Doshisha University, 1 - 22, Jan. 2021, Summary international conference
• The Hebrew Biblical Bérit in Light of Ancient Near Eastern Covenants and Treaties
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Canon & Culture: A Journal of Biblical Interpretation in Context, 14(2) 5 - 50, Dec. 2020, Introduction scientific journal
• The Subverted City [Ir Hannidahat] in the Context of Ancient Near East Vassal Treaties
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-subverted-city-ir-hannidahat-in-the-context-of-ane-vassal-treaties, Aug. 2020, Introduction commerce magazine
• “Ritual as Divine Law: The Case of Hittite Royal Cultic Performance and its Biblical Correspondence,”
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Orient, 55 23 - 37, 2020
• “Biblical Wisdom Literature and Hittite Didactic texts in the Ancient Near Eastern Literary Context”
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  JISMOR, 14 45 - 64, Mar. 2019
• - “The Religious Restrictions in the Bible and Hittite Cultures: On Holiness in both Cultures”
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Judaism in Modern Era: Interpretative Studies of Ancient and Current Texts - Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Jewish Studies; Held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, August 19th 2018 (Ed. Ada Taggar Cohen; Kyoto: Doshisha University, The Center for Interdisciplinary Study of the Monotheistic Religions=CISMOR), 27 - 37, 2019
• 古代近東文学における聖書の知恵文学とヒッタイトの教訓文書
  アダ・タガー・コヘン
  一神教学際研究 (JISMOR), 14 43 - 62, 2019
• ״הברית המקראית לאור בריתות המזרח הקדום,״
  עדה תגר-כהן
  Political Treaties of the Ancient Near East by Amnon Altman, 111 - 131, 2018
• “Neo-Hittites,”
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (=EBR), 16, 2017
• ヒッタイト文書における儀礼の失敗に対する態度とその聖書との関係
  アダ・タガー・コヘン
  基督教研究, 79(2) 15 - 30, 2017
• “Rituals on the Battlefield and Historiographical Accounts: Hittite and Biblical texts,”
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  "Now It Happened in Those Days": Studies in Biblical, Assyrian, and Other Ancient Near Eastern Historiography Presented to Mordechai Cogan on His 75th Birthday (Eds. Amitai Baruchi-Unna et al.; Winona Lake, IND: Eisenbrauns), 553 - 584, 2017
• “Subtle Citation, Allusion, and Translation: Evidence in Hittite Texts and Some Biblical Implications,”
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Subtle Citation, Allusion, and Translation in the Hebrew Bible, (ed. Ziony Zevit; Equinox publishing,), 54 - 72, 2017
• The Absence of Females in the Israelite Priesthood in Light of Hittite Cultic Laws (ishiul-) and Cultic Performance
  アダ・タガー・コヘン
  基督教研究, 基督教研究会, 78(2) 21 - 37, 2016
• “The ‘Holiness School’ – Creativity and Editorial Activity in the Book of Joshua: The case of Joshua 24,”
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Marbeh Hokmah: Studies in the Bible and Ancient Near East in Loving Memory of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz (S. Yonah, E.L. Greenstein, M.I. Gruber, P. Machinist and S. M. Paul eds.; Winona Lake, IND: Eisenbrauns), 541 - 557, 2015
• “Between Herem, Ownership, and Ritual - Biblical and Hittite Perspectives
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Roy E. Gane and Ada Taggar-Cohen (eds.), Current Issues in Priestly and Related Literature: The Legacy of Jacob Milgrom and Beyond (Resources for Biblical Study 82; Atlanta: SBL Press), 419 - 434, 2015
• “Concept of the Divine in Hittite Culture and the Hebrew Bible: Expressions of the Divine”
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR), 9 29 - 50, 2014
• “Is there in the Hebrew Bible an unconditional Covenant? A glance at the scriptures with Ancient Near Eastern Texts stating the promise of land and subservience to God”
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Land and People in Jewish Writings and their Interpretations: Papers read in an International Workshop held in Leo Baeck College London Feb. 28, 2013, 2013
• “Tempeldiener-Instruktionen, Hethitische (instructions)”
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Reallexikon der Assyrologie, 13 580 - 581, 2013
• “Hittite Priesthood - State Administration in the service of the Gods: Its Implications for the Interpretations of Biblical Priesthood”
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Biblische Notizen, 156 155 - 175, 2013
• （編著）『第5回CISMORユダヤ学会議：古代・中世初期のユダヤ教とキリスト教』
  同志社大学一神教学際研究センター・神学部神学研究科, Vol.5 114 - 117, 2012
• 現代ヘブライ語、動詞の語形変化学習と練習のためのテキスト
  同志社大学,神学部, 2012
• 現代ヘブライ語テキスト：日本語を話す人々のための現代ヘブライ語：文章音読と会話練習、および文法解説
  同志社大学,神学部, 2012
• （編著）「第4回CISMORユダヤ学会議：ユダヤ教、キリスト教、ムスリムの相互作用――歴史的、文化的見地から
  同志社大学一神教学際研究センター・神学部神学研究科, 4 43499 , 2011
• 現代ヘブライ語テキスト：日本語を話す人々のための現代ヘブライ語：文章音読と会話練習、および文法解説
  同志社大学,神学部, 2011
• Covenant Priesthood: Cross-Cultural Legal and Religious Aspects of Biblical and Hittite Priesthood
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Priests and Levites in History and Tradition, (eds.) Mark Leuchter and Jeremy Hutton (Ancient Israel and Its Literature series, 43793 , 2011
• Biblical covenant and Hittite ishiul reexamind
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Vetus Testamentum, 61(3) 461 - 488, 2011
• Covenant Priesthood: Cross-Cultural Legal and Religious Aspects of Biblical and Hittite Priesthood
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Priests and Levites in History and Tradition, (eds.) Mark Leuchter and Jeremy Hutton (Ancient Israel and Its Literature series, 43793 , 2011
• Biblical covenant and Hittite ishiul reexamined
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  VETUS TESTAMENTUM, BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, 61(3) 461 - 488, 2011
  

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• 現代ヘブライ語テキスト：日本語を話す人々のための現代ヘブライ語：文章音読と会話練習、および文法解説
  同志社大学, 2010
• The Prince, the KAR.KID Women and the arzana-house: A Hittite royal festival to the goddess Katahha (CTH 633)
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Altorientalische Forschungen, 113 - 131, 2010
• 「ユダヤ教における宗教教育」 「キリスト教教育事典」
  アダ・タガー・コヘン
  日本キリスト教団出版局, 391 - 397, 2010
• The Prince, the KAR.KID Women and the arzana-house: A Hittite royal festival to the goddess Katahha (CTH 633)
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Altorientalische Forschungen, 37(1) 113 - 131, 2010
  

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• Biblical Hebrew and modern Hebrew : a quest for identity
  Taggar-Cohen Ada
  Studies in the Christian religion, Doshisha University, 71(1) 63 - 81, 2009
  

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• The Hittite and their Culture, Itamar Singer (Mosad Bialik, 2009)-book review essay
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Beit Mikra, 153 - 171, 2009
• The Hittite and their Culture, Itamar Singer (Mosad Bialik, 2009)-book review essay
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Beit Mikra, 153 - 171, 2009
• 「ラディノ語との出会い」、『CISMOR ユダヤ学会議 Papers & Discussions：ユダヤ人の言語、隣接文化との歴史的集合』
  同志社大学一神教学際研究センター21世紀COEプログラム, 3 90 - 99, 2008
• Reflections of Hittite and Emar Practices in the Sinaitic Traditions of Moses
  Ada(Taggar) COHEN
  Shenaton (Annual for Bible and Ancient Near Eastern studies), 15 99 - 114, 2006
• Joshua 24 and the Priestly "School of Holiness."
  Taggar-Cohen Ada; Sugimura Hiromi
  Studies in the Christian religion, Doshisha University, 68(1) 43478 - 13, 2006
  

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• The Nin.Dingir in the Hittite Kingdom: A Mesopotamian priestly office in Hatti?
  Ada Taggar-Cohen
  Altorientalische Forschungen, 33(2) 313 - 327, 2006
  

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• Hittite Priesthood (Texte der Hethiter 26; Heidelberg) 2006
  Ada(Taggar) COHEN
  Universitatsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2006
• Reflections of Hittite and Emar Practices in the Sinaitic Traditions of Moses
  Shenaton (Annual for Bible and Ancient Near Eastern studies), 15 99 - 114, 2006
• Joshua 24 and the Priestly School of Holiness
  Taggar-Cohen Ada; Sugimura Hiromi
  Kirisuto-kenkyu, Doshisha University, 68(1) 43478 - 13, 2006
  

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• The NIN.DINGIR in the Hittite Kingdom: A Mesopotamian priestly office in Hatti?
  Altorientalische Forshungen, 33(2) 313 - 327, 2006
• Hittite Priesthood (Texte der Hethiter 26; Heidelberg) 2006
  Universitatsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2006
• Violence at the Birth of Religion: Exodus 19-40 in Light of Ancient Near Eastern Texts
  Cohen Ada Taggar
  Journal of the interdisciplinary study of monotheistic religions : JISMOR, Doshisha University, 1 101 - 116, 2005
• Political loyalty in the biblical account of 1 Samuel XX-XXII in the light of hittite texts
  A Taggar-Cohen
  VETUS TESTAMENTUM, BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, 55(2) 251 - 268, 2005
• The Covenant as Contract: Joshua 24 and the Legal Aramaic Texts from Elephantine
  Ada(Taggar) COHEN
  Zeitshrift fur Altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte, 11 27 - 50, 2005
• The Assembly at Shechem and the Ancient Hittite Legal Tradition
  Ada(Taggar) COHEN
  The First CISMOR Conference on Jewish Studies, 1 18 - 27, 2005
• Violence at the Birth of Religion: Exodous 19-40 in Light of Ancient Near Eastern Texts
  Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions, 1 101 - 116, 2005
• Political Loyalty in the Biblical Account of 1 Samuel xx-xxii In Light of Hittitetexts
  Vetus Testamentum, 55(2) 251 - 268, 2005
• The Covenant as Contract: Joshua 24 and the Legal Aramaic Texts from Elephantine
  Zeitshrift fur Altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte, 11 27 - 50, 2005
• The Assembly at Shechem and the Ancient Hittite Legal Tradition
  The First CISMOR Conference on Jewish Studies, 1 18 - 27, 2005
• The EZEN-pulas: A Hittite Installation Rite of a New Priest in Light of the Installation of dIM Priestess in Emar.
  Ada(Taggar) COHEN
  The Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2 127 - 159, 2002
• The Casting of Lots among the Hittites, in Light of Ancient Near Eastern Parallels
  Ada(Taggar) COHEN
  Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, 29 97 - 103, 2002
• The EZEN-pulas: A Hittite Installation Rite of a New Priest in Light of the Installation of dIM Priestess in Emar.
  The Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2 127 - 159, 2002
• The Casting of Lots among the Hittites, in Light of Ancient Near Eastern Parallels
  Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, 29 97 - 103, 2002
• Hebrew Prepositions: A Handbook for the Study and Practice of Modern Hebrew Prepositions
  Ada(Taggar) COHEN
  Jerusalem: Academon, 2000
• Hebrew Prepositions: A Handbook for the Study and Practice of Modern Hebrew Prepositions
  Jerusalem: Academon, 2000
• Law and family in the 'Book of Numbers': The Levites and the "Tidennutu" documents from Nuzi (Ancient Near-Eastern cultic theology and legal terminology)
  A Taggar-Cohen
  VETUS TESTAMENTUM, BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, 48(1) 74 - 94, 1998
• Law and Family in the Book of Numbers: The Levites and the tidennutu Documents from Nuzi
  Vetus Testamentum, 48(1) 74 - 94, 1998
• An Index of Grammatical Terms and Particles for "The Sumerian Language" by Marie-Louise Thompsen (Mesopotamia 10, Copenhagen 1984)
  Ada(Taggar) COHEN
  Akkadica, (89+90) 27 - 47, 1994
• An Index of Grammatical Terms and Particles for "The Sumerian Language" by Marie-Louise Thompsen (Mesopotamia 10, Copenhagen 1984)
  Akkadica, (89+90) 27 - 47, 1994

Presentations

• “The Place of Gender in Hittite Rituals: Were Hittite Priestesses Equally Positioned in State Rituals?”
  Ada Taggar Cohen
  Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) annual meeting, 21 Nov. 2021, Invited oral presentation
• “The Hittite Case of Royal Women in the Cult: The Queen and the NIN.DINGIR (CTH 714//CTH 738)”
  Ada Taggar Cohen
  Orient Gakkai Annual meeting, 31 Oct. 2021, Public symposium
• Jewish Renaissance: Jewish Japan
  Ada Taggar Cohen
  https://www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk/events/summer-issue-launch-2021?fbclid=IwAR1v01_45wWTwR4_UALmQ454DWXv5FRzqoDJSnpxvWvS_15JBKYjDfdhqLA, 20 Jul. 2021, Media report
• “Understanding the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox Community’s Reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic”
  Ada Taggar Cohen
  Japan Association of Jewish Studies, 04 Jul. 2021, Public symposium

Research Projects

• Ancient Anatolia and the Bible: Legal Royal Prerogative and Prescribed Rituals”
  TAGGAR COHEN Ada
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2017/04 -2021/03, Competitive research funding
• International Conference: International Cultural Diversity in the Ancient Near East
  Mishima Kaiunn Memorial Foundation, Academic research incentives (Research Grant), 2019/04 -2019/04, Competitive research funding
• 古代近東の祭司制の比較研究
  Competitive research funding