James Kinnier Wilson

Life

University career

• 1946: Admitted to Christ Church, Oxford
• 1949: BA, in Hebrew and Assyriology. 1952, MA
• 1950: Appointed Lecturer in Assyriology, Durham University
• 1951–52: Research year at The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
• 1953–55: Lecturer and Asst. Prof., University College, Toronto
• 1955–89: Appointed Eric Yarrow Lecturer in Assyriology, University of Cambridge
• 1965–67: Chairman, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge

  Publications

• The Nimrud Wine Lists: A study of men and administration at the Assyrian capital in the Eighth Century BC
• Indo-Sumerian: A new approach to the problems of the Indus Script
• The Rebel Lands: An investigation into the Origins of Early Mesopotamian Mythology
• The Legend of Etana: A new edition
• Studia Etanaica: new texts and discussions, Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Band 338
• Towards Novaluation: God's Work and Ours at the End of the Age

  Selected chapters and articles

• “An Introduction to Babylonian Psychiatry”, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Assyriological Studies, No. 16, Chicago, pp. 289–298, 1965
• “Organic diseases of Ancient Mesopotamia”, and “Mental diseases of Ancient Mesopotamia”, in D Brothwell and A T Sandison, eds., Diseases in Antiquity: a Survey of the Diseases, injuries and Surgery of Early Populations,, Chaps. 15 and 56, 1967
• “Medicine in the Land and the Times of the Old Testament”, in Studies-in the period of David and Solomon and other Essays, ed. Tomo Ishida, pp. 339–365, 1982
• “The ‘Seven Cities’ of the Indus Script: a Restatement”, South Asian Studies, 12, pp. 99–104, 1996
• “'On the Ud-shu-bala at Ur towards the End of the Third Millennium BC”, Iraq LXVII/2, pp. 47–60, 2005
• “On Stroke and Facial Palsy in Babylonian Texts”, in Disease in Babylonia. ed. I.L. Finkel and M.J. Geller, pp. 67–99, 2007