麻豆传媒

Professor of History and Ancient Studies

Year Joined RCNJ: 1974

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7420
• Email: ispar@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-202
• Office Hours: TF 12:00-1:30 pm; Also By Appt

Education:

• B.A., The American University
• M.A., Michigan State University
• Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Courses Offered:

• World Civilizations I & II
• Ancient Law
• Beginnings of Civilization
• Ancient Egypt

Teaching Interests:

• Biblical Archaeology and History
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Akkadian I & II
• Approaching the Divine

Scholarly Activity:

Books

• Ira Spar and 聽Michael Jursa,聽The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millennium B.C. Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. IV, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art , 2014

Articles

• 鈥淏abylon and the Bible,鈥� in J. Aruz (ed.),聽From Assyria to Iberia,聽The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014
• 鈥淐yrus and the Judean Diaspora,鈥澛犅�, July 2013
• 鈥�,鈥�World History Connected, Spring 2012
• 鈥淎shurbanipal,鈥� in聽Dictionary of African Biography. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2011

Papers

• 鈥淎ncient Temple Economies: A Comparative Typology,鈥� University of Hanoi, Hawaii Pacific University and the World History Association, Vietnam Symposium, University of Hanoi, December 2013
• 鈥淚sraelite and Egyptian Exiles in the Babylonian Diaspora,鈥� World History Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2013