J. Nicholas Reid

J. Nicholas Reid (DPhil Oxon) is the author of Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia: Confinement and Control until the First Fall of Babylon (Oxford University Press). He is Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Director of the Hybrid MDiv Program at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando. Nicholas is also a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. His research involves publishing cuneiform texts in various collections around the world, as well as writing on topics of social history, such as slavery, prisons, and labor in ancient Mesopotamia. He has authored numerous articles in leading journals, including Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, International Review of Social History, Revue d’Assyrologie, and Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete. Nicholas also coauthored a monograph on Old Babylonian Letters from Ancient Kish, which will be published later this year in the historic series Oxford Edition of Cuneiform Texts (Oxford University Press).