#  Gösta Gabriel 

 

 



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Gösta Gabriel is postdoctoral researcher in Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. He studied Ancient History, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Business Administration, Design Thinking, and Philosophy in Chelmsford (UK), Leipzig, Malente, and Potsdam (all Germany). He received his doctorate in Ancient Near Eastern Studies in 2013 from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, with the first overall interpretation of the so-called "Babylonian Epic of Creation" (enūma eliš). His project at the Mahindra Humanities Center – "A Mythical Critique of Violence" – is on the ancient concept of violence as it can be derived from Mesopotamian flood mythology (i.e. Epic of Atramḫasīs, Sumerian Flood Story, Epic of Gilgameš, ca. 2000–1000 BCE). The Biblical story of Noah and the ark builds on these Mesopotamian forerunners that depict a scenario in which violence is used to a vast extent. The portrayal of such extreme measures reveals an outstanding level of ancient philosophical deliberation on the nature of violence. As a consequence, the Mesopotamian sources also formulate a critique of the use of violence addressing gods and human rulers. In general, Gösta Gabriel is interested in Akkadian and Sumerian philology and intellectual history. His projects focus especially on the phenomenon of a "Mesopotamian philosophy."

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2016 - 2017](/fellowship-year/2016-2017)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)