Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago (Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A., University of Chicago (Middle Eastern Studies)
B.A., Wheaton College (Ancient Languages)
Bio
Andrew began teaching at Wheaton College in 2020. He is an alumnus of the college, completing a B.A. in Ancient Languages in 2009 followed by M.A. and Ph.D. studies in Northwest Semitic Philology at the University of Chicago (Department of Middle Eastern Studies). He studies Northwest Semitic languages (including Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic), examining epigraphic resources in conversation with modern linguistic and historiographic approaches in order to explore the development and transmission of literacy practices in the Levant. His research focuses most heavily on textual material from Ugarit, an important kingdom in northern Syria during the Late Bronze Age that produced an immense corpus of literature in the local Ugaritic language. He also serves as an advisory board member for the DFG-funded project “Edition des ugaritischen poetischen Textkorpus (EUPT)” (Georg-August Universität Göttingen) and as a Hebrew language consultant for the revised edition of the Bible de Jérusalem. At Wheaton, he regularly teaches introductory, intermediate, and advanced courses in Hebrew and cognate languages.
Select Publications
“Les Ougaritains” (A French-language survey of the history, languages, and writing systems of Ugarit). In Alphabets méditerranéens, peuples et langues, edited by Rina Viers, 27-38. Nice: Éditions Alphabets, 2025.
“Approaching the ‘Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit.’” Journal of Semitic Studies 69 (2024): 1107-1140.
“‘To the King, My Master’: Epistolary Evidence for Ugaritian Agents Abroad.” In Migration and Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Egypt: The Crossroads IV, edited by Jana Mynářová et al., 21-68. Columbus: Lockwood, 2024.
“Toponymic Remarks to RIH 83/47+ (RIH II, no. 43).” Göttinger Miszellen zur Ugaritistik 1 (2024): 1-10.
Burlingame, Andrew, Robert Hawley, and Dennis Pardee. “The Boundaries of Literary Genre in Ugaritian Administration and Law: A New Intermediate Genre.” In Administrations et pratiques comptables au Proche-Orient ancien, edited by Étienne Bordreuil, Valérie Matoïan, and Jan Tavernier, 365-413. Publications de l’Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 74. Leuven: Peeters, 2024.
Richelle, Matthieu, and Andrew Burlingame. “Why Mesha’s ‘House of David’ Remains Hypothetical.” Bible History Daily (Biblical Archaeological Society), Aug. 25, 2023.
Richelle, Matthieu, and Andrew Burlingame. “Set in Stone? Another Look at the Mesha Stele.” Biblical Archaeology Review 49/1 (2023): 54-57.
“Ugaritic Emotion Terms.” In The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East, edited by Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert, 197-227. London: Routledge, 2023.
“Constraining the Future in Ugaritic Juridical Composition and the Indefinite Semantics of šḥr ṯlṯt.” In Ougarit, un anniversaire, bilans et recherches en cours, edited by Valérie Matoïan, 461-487. Ras Shamra–Ougarit 28. Leuven: Peeters, 2021.
“New Evidence for Ugaritic and Hittite Onomastics and Prosopography at the End of the Late Bronze Age.” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 110/2 (2020): 196-211.
Burlingame, Andrew, and Dennis Pardee. “Two fragments from a single tablet? A new proposal regarding the epistolary fragments RS 18.286[A] and RS 18.[400], with discussion of RS 18.286[B].” Altorientalische Forschungen 46/2: 186-203.
“Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel: Recent Developments and Future Directions.” Bibliotheca Orientalis 76/1-2 (2019): 46-74.
“ʾEšmunʿazor’s Exchange: An Old Reading and a New Interpretation of Line 19 of ʾEšmunʿazor’s Sarcophagus Inscription (AO 4806 = KAI 14).” Semitica et Classica 11 (2018): 35-69.
“Line Five of the Amman Citadel Inscription: History of Interpretation and a New Proposal.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 376 (2016): 63-82.
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