29 Publications (Page 1 of 2)
2022
Awe as Entangled Emotion: Prosociality, Collective Action, and Aesthetics in the Sumerian Gilgamesh Narratives. The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East, ed. Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert
 
Emotions and Body Language: The Expression of Emotions in Visual Art. The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East, ed. Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert
 
Emotions in the Ancient Near East: Foundations for a Developing Field of Study (with Ulrike Steinert) The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East, ed. Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert
 
The distant eye and the ekphrastic image
Sonik, Karen
(pp. 530–557). Routledge
 
The Emotions of Dead Civilizations: ‘Come, Tell Me How You Lived The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East, ed. Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert
 
The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East. Routledge
2021
Art/ifacts and ArtWorks: De-Colonizing the Study and Museum Display of Ancient and Non-Western Things. Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World, ed. Karen Sonik
 
Entangled Images: Royal Memory, Posthumous Presence, and the Afterlives of Assyrian Rock Reliefs
(pp. 39–68). BRILL
 
Gilgamesh and emotional excess: The king without counsel in the SB Gilgameshepic
Sonik, K.
(pp. 390-409)
 
Minor and Marginal(ized)? Re-Thinking Women as Minor Characters in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Journal of the American Oriental Society
. | Journal Article
 
The Ancient Near East: Western | Non-Western. Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World, ed. Karen Sonik
2019
Historians Respond to Whitehouse et al. (2019), “Complex Societies Precede Moralizing Gods Throughout World History, by Slingerland, Edward, M. Willis Monroe, Brenton Sullivan, Robyn Faith Walsh, Daniel Veidlinger, William Noseworthy, Conn Herriott, Ben Raffield, Janine Larmon Peterson, Gretel Rodríguez, Karen Sonik, William Green, Frederick S. Tappenden, Amir Ashtari, Michael Muthukrishna, Rachel Spicer. Journal of Cognitive Historiography
. | Journal Article
 
Journey to the City: A Companion to the Middle East Galleries at the Penn Museum, ed. Steve Tinney and Karen Sonik. University of Pennsylvania Press
2017
Visualizing Emotions in the Ancient Near East
S.N.
Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2015
Between Cognition and Culture: Theorizing the Materiality of Divine Agency in Cross- Cultural Perspective
Pongratz-Leisten, Beate and Sonik, Karen
DE GRUYTER
 
Divine (Re-)Presentation: Authoritative Images and a Pictorial Stream of Tradition in Mesopotamia. The Materiality of Divine Agency, ed. Beate Pongratz-Leisten and Karen Sonik
 
Hand of God. Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 11: 183-184
 
The Materiality of Divine Agency, ed. Beate Pongratz-Leisten and Karen Sonik
2014
Pictorial mythology and narrative in the Ancient Near East
Sonik, K.
(pp. 265-293)
2013
From Hesiod’s Abyss to Ovid’s rudis indigestaque moles: Chaos and Cosmos in the Babylonian Epic of Creation. Creation and Chaos: A Reconsideration of Gunkel’s Chaoskampf Hypothesis, ed. JoAnn Scurlock and Richard Beal
 
Mesopotamian Conceptions of the Supernatural: A Taxonomy of Zwischenwesen
Sonik, Karen
Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, vol. 14, (no. 1), 2013-01-00. | Journal Article
 
The Monster’s Gaze: Vision as Mediator Between Time and Space in the Art of Mesopotamia. Time and History in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 56th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Barcelona, 26-30 July 2010, ed. Lluís Feliu, Jaume Llop, Adelina Millet Albà, and Joaqín Sanmartín
2012
Breaching the Boundaries of Being: Metamorphoses in the Mesopotamian Literary Texts
Sonik, Karen
Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 132, (no. 3), pp. 385-393, Jul-Sep 2012. | Journal Article
 
Demons, ancient Near East. The Encyclopedia of Ancient History
 
The Tablet of Destinies and the Transmission of Power in Enūma eliš. Organization, Representation, and Symbols of Power: Proceedings of the 54th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Würzburg