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James D. Moore serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University, with additional affiliation in the History department. He held a position as Chargé de Conférence at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (2023-2024) and collaborates on the ERC project SLaVEgents (2023-2028). He co-directs the OSU Digital Lab for Ancient Textual Objects (DLATO) and manages the Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (OCIANA).
His academic training includes:
- Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, specializing in the Bible and Ancient Near East.
Moore's research centers on Northwest Semitic epigraphy, the Hebrew Bible, and Ancient Near Eastern scribal culture, with a focus on religious economies within imperial frameworks, especially the Achaemenid Empire. He also investigates Achaemenid Mediterranean social history, Dead Sea Scrolls, Syriac, Archaeology, and Comparative Semitics, integrating philological analysis with social-historical context to explore administrative and economic structures.
His recent publications reveal a concentration on Hebrew and Aramaic epigraphic evidence to study administrative reforms, religious practices, and scribal techniques during the Persian period. He is a proponent of digital humanities, developing resources for digital editions and databases of ancient texts.
Moore is actively involved in major grant-funded projects, notably the ERC's SLaVEgents. He advises graduate students in philological and social-historical research, serving on the NESA Graduate Student Committee and co-advising the CANE graduate program. He emphasizes training students in digital research methods (SQL).
He co-directs the DLATO, which creates digital tools for ancient textual scholarship, and manages OCIANA, a comprehensive corpus of Ancient North Arabian inscriptions, reflecting his commitment to digital innovation in the field.
