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Doc. PhDr. Jana Mynářová, Ph.D.

24.3.2015

Jana Mynářová graduated in Egyptology and Cuneiform Studies (Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague), acquired her PhD in 2004 in Philology – Languages of Asia and Africa and since 2015 she is an Associate Professor in Egyptology. She specializes above all in the relationships between Egypt and the Near East in the 2nd millennium B.C., Egyptian history and society in the New Kingdom and Peripheral Akkadian. Jana Mynářová is a member of The American Schools of Oriental Research, International Association of Assyriology and she serves on the editorial board of the Annals of the Náprstek Museum.

Complete and updated bibliography and downloadable pdf files of selected publications are available in the profile at Academia.edu.

Education, Grants and Fellowships

1995-2000: M.A. in Cuneiform Studies (Charles University in Prague, M.A. paper Akkadian Texts of the Egyptian Provenance from Tell el-Amarna [in Czech])
1996-2000: M.A. in Egyptology (Charles University in Prague)
2000-2004: Ph.D., Philology – Languages of Asia and Africa (Charles University in Prague, Ph.D. dissertation: Greeting Formulae in Peripheral Akkadian [in Czech])
2015: Associate Professor of Egyptology (Communication and Exploitation. Egypt as an Integral Part of the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity)

2001: Ph.D. studies at the Departament de Filología Semítica and Institut del Pròxim Orient Antic, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (Erasmus, Free-movers)
2002, 2004, 2005: lectures at the Departament de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2006: Mellon Research Fellow in Spain, Instituto de Filología, Dept. de Filología Bíblica y de Oriente Antiguo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid, Spain)

1999 Vademecum klínopisem (Fond rozvoje vysokých škol; co-investigator)
2004 Kulturní antropologie Egypta a Předního východu v době bronzové (Fond rozvoje vysokých škol, 1821/2004; main investigator)
2006-2008 Amarna jako křižovatka starověkého světa (GA ČR, 404/06/P058; main investigator)
2009-2013 Centrum či periferie? – Dějiny a kultura Syropalestiny (3000–300 př. n. l.) (GA ČR, 404/09/0162; main investigator)
2012-2018 Historie a interpretace Bible (GA ČR, P401/12/G168, centrum excelence; main investigator responsible for the Faculty of Arts)

Selected bibliography:

Monographs:

• Mynářová, Jana. Počátek vítězství krále Horního a Dolního Egypta. Texty k dějinám starověké Levanty [Starověké písemnictví Levanty, VI]. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta – OIKOYMENH 2014 (in press).
• Čech, Pavel – Mynářová, Jana – Antalík, Dalibor – Dušek, Jan (vyd.). Jak je psáno. Vědecké, právní, administrativní a školní texty starověké Levanty [Starověké písemnictví Levanty, IV]. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta – OIKOYMENH 2014.
• Antalík, Dalibor – Čech, Pavel – Mynářová, Jana – Dušek, Jan (vyd.). Na stezkách domu Baalova. Náboženské texty literární a kultické [Starověké písemnictví Levanty, II]. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta – OIKOYMENH 2014.
• Mynářová, Jana – Dušek, Jan – Čech, Pavel – Antalík, Dalibor. Poskytni králi výmluvná slova. Korespondence starověké Levanty [Starověké písemnictví Levanty, III]. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta – OIKOYMENH 2013.
• Dušek, Jan – Antalík, Dalibor – Čech, Pavel – Mynářová, Jana. Jako pták v kleci. Epigrafické památky starověké Levanty [Starověké písemnictví Levanty, V], Praha: FF UK v Praze – OIKOYMENH 2013.
• Mynářová, Jana – Onderka, Pavel – Podhorný, Radek – Vrtal, Vlastimil. Poklady starého Egypta. Olomouc: Vlastivědné museum v Olomouci 2013.
• Language of Amarna – Language of Diplomacy. Perspectives on the Amarna Letters, Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles Univerity in Prague 2007.

Edited volumes:

• Mynářová, Jana (ed.), Egypt and the Near East – the Crossroads. Prague: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts 2011.
• Mynářová, Jana – Dušek, Jan - Čech, Pavel - Antalík, Dalibor (eds.). Písemnictví starověkého Předního východu 3000–300 př. Kr. [Starověké písemnictví Levanty, I], Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta – OIKOYMENH 2011.
• Maříková Vlčková, Petra – Mynářová, Jana – Tomášek, Martin (eds.). My Things Changed Things. Social Development and Cultural Exchange in Prehistory, Antiquity, and the Middle Ages. Prague: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts – Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, v.v.i. 2009.
• Onderka, Pavel – Maříková Vlčková, Petra – Mynářová, Jana (eds.). Objevování země na Nilu. Discovering the Land on the Nile, Praha: Národní muzeum 2008.
• Mynářová, Jana – Onderka, Pavel (eds.). Théby. Město bohů a faraonů – Thebes. City of Gods and Pharaohs, Praha: Národní muzeum 2007.
• Petr Charvát – Bertrand Lafont – Jana Mynářová – Lukáš Pecha (eds.). L’état, le pouvoir, les prestations et leurs formes en Mésopotamie ancienne. Actes du Colloque assyriologique franco–tchèque. Paris, 7–8 novembre 2002, Praha: FF UK 2006.

Articles:

• Tradition or Innovation? The Ugaritic-Egyptian Correspondence. Ägypten und Levante 20 (2010), 363–372.
• Wretched Fallen One of Ḫatti or Hero? An Image of the Hittite King in the Egyptian Sources. In: Mynářová, Jana (ed.), Egypt and the Near East – the Crossroads. Proceedings of an International Conference on the Relations of Egypt and the Near East in the Bronze Age, Prague, September 1–3, 2010. Prague: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts 2011, 235–247.
• Jana Mynářová – Filip Coppens, Prostration before God and Pharaoh. In: Vivienne Gae Callender – Ladislav Bareš – Miroslav Bárta – Jiří Janák – Jaromír Krejčí (eds.), Times, Signs and Pyramids. Studies in Honour of Miroslav Verner on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, Prague: Charles University in Prague 2011, 283–295.
• Jan Dušek – Jana Mynářová, Excursus 2: Phoenician and Aramaic Inscriptions on a Phoenician storage jar (Excav. No. 826/S/10). A Preliminary Report. In: Bareš, Ladislav – Smoláriková, Květa (eds.), The Shaft Tomb of Menechibnekau. Vol. I: The Archaeology, Prague: Charles University in Prague 2011 [Abusir XXV], 179–181.
• Expressions of Dates and Time in the Amarna Letters. Ägypten und Levante 21 (2011), 123–128.
• From the mountain or from the kiln? Lapis lazuli in the Amarna Letters In: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio – Vidal, Jordi – Wyatt, Nicolas (eds.), The Perfumes of Seven Tamarisks: Studies in Honour of Wilfred G. E. Watson [Alter Orient und Altes Testament 394], Münster: Ugarit-Verlag 2012, 63–73.
• The Representatives of Power in the Amarna Letters. In: Wilhelm, Gernot (ed.), Organization, Representation and Symbols of Power in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the 54thRencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Würzburg, 20–25 July, 2008, Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns 2012, 551–558.
• North or South? A Note on the Provenance of EA 220. Ägypten und Levante 22 (2012), 371–377.
• Amarna, Amarna letters. In: Bagnall, Roger – Brodersen, Kai – Champion, Craige – Erskine, Andrew – Huebner, Sabine (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, vol. 1, Malden, MA – Oxford – Carlton, Victoria: Wiley-Blackwell 2013, 347–348.
• Athribis, Tell Atrib. In: Bagnall, Roger – Brodersen, Kai – Champion, Craige – Erskine, Andrew – Huebner, Sabine (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, vol. 1, Malden, MA – Oxford – Carlton, Victoria: Wiley-Blackwell 2013, 921-922.
• Jan Dušek – Jana Mynářová, Phoenician and Aramaic Inscriptions from Abusir. In: Botta, Alejandro (ed.). In the Shadow of Bezalel: Aramaic, Biblical, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Bezalel Porten, Leiden – New York: Brill 2013 [Culture and History of the Ancient Near East], 53–69.
• ‘A Father to Me’ – An Innovation in EA 199? A Supplement, in: Miroslav Bárta – Hella Küllmer (eds.), Diachronic Trends in Ancient Egyptian History (dedicated to the memory of Eva Pardey), Prague: Charles University in Prague 2013, 102–108.
• Being a Loyal Servant. Egypt and the Levant from the Perspective of Juridical Terminology of the 18th Dynasty. Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte, 19 (2013), 79–87.
• The Scribes of Amarna – A Family Affair? In: Marti, Lionel (ed.), La famille dans le Proche-Orient ancien: réalités, symbolismes et images. Proceedings of the 55th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Paris, July 6-9, 2009. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns 2014, 375–381.
• Egyptian State Correspondence of the New Kingdom: The Letters of the Levantine Client Kings in the Amarna Correspondence and Contemporary Evidence. In: Radner, Karen (ed.), State Correspondence in the Ancient World. From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire [Oxford Studies in Early Empires], London – New York: Oxford University Press 2014, 10–31.
• Lost in Translation. An Egyptological Perspective on the Egyptian-Hittite Treaties. Annals of the Náprstek Museum 35/2, 2014, 3–8.
• Discovery, Research and Excavation of the Amarna Tablets – the Formative Stage, in: Rainey, Anson F., The El-Amarna Correspondence. A New Edition of the Cuneiform Letters from the Site of El-Amarna based on Collations of all Extant Tablets [Handbuch der Orientalistik, 110], edited by William M. Schniedewind, Leiden – New York – Köln: Brill 2015, 37–46.
• Egypt among the Great Powers and its relations to the neighbouring vassal kingdoms in the Southern Levant according to the written evidence. Thutmose III and Amarna. In: Birgitta Eder – Regine Pruzsinszky (eds.), Policies of Exchange: Political Systems and Modes of Interaction in the Aegean and the Near East in the 2nd Millennium BC, Proceedings of the International Symposion, 30th May-2nd June 2012 in Freiburg (OREA 2), Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 155–163 (in press).
• Who’s the King? An Image of the Egyptian King According to Non-Egyptian Evidence, in: Coppens, Filip – Janák, Jiří – Vymazalová, Hana (eds.), Royal versus Divine Authority. Acquisition, Legitimization and Renewal of Power. 7. Tagung zur Königsideologie, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (in press).
• Dušek, Jan – Mynářová, Jana. The Tell Fekheriyeh Inscription: A Process of Authority on the Edge of the Assyrian Empire. In: Dušek, Jan (ed.), The Process of Authority, Berlin: De Gruyter Verlag (in press).

Bibliography until 2008 can be found here and here.