Dr. Jimmy Daccache

Biography

Jimmy Daccache is a lectors specializing in Northwest Semitic Languages within the Religious Studies department. He earned his PhD from Paris IV Sorbonne in 2013, with a dissertation focused on the Semitic god Rašap, which explored the cult of Rašap over a broad chronological range from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BCE in regions including Syria, Phoenicia, Cyprus, Israel, and Egypt. His primary fields of interest include the religions, cultures, and histories of the Northwest Semitic world, where he approaches epigraphic evidence with textual analysis. From 2011 to 2016, he held a postdoctoral position with a European Research Council-funded project, Floriental: Babylon to Baghdad: History of Herbal Medicine in the Near East, under the supervision of Robert Hawley at CNRS (UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerranée – Mondes sémitiques). His work there centered on the critical edition of Syriac translations of Greek medical texts, particularly treatises in dietetics and pharmacology attributed to Galen during the 9th-century Abbasid period in Baghdad. Currently, he co-directs the Recueil des inscriptions syriaques de Turquie (RIS – Turquie), a long-term project documenting and publishing Syriac inscriptions from southeastern Turkey. He conducts regular epigraphic surveys in Şanlıurfa and neighboring regions and collaborates on the publication of Phoenician ostraca from Kition in Cyprus, based on fieldwork from various epigraphic expeditions. His ongoing research also involves the paleographic study of Syriac inscriptions within the framework of the E-Twoto project.

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