Frances Reynolds (academic)

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Frances Reynolds is a Shillito Fellow in Assyriology at the Oriental Institute St Benet's Hall, Oxford. Her speciality is in Babylonian and Assyrian intellectual history, literature and religion, with an emphasis on the late second and first millennia BC. [1]

St Benets Hall, Oxford

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Reynolds was a consultant for the BBC2 series Divine Women (2011) [2] and the BBC series History of the World (2011–12). From 1998 she has been an honorary Research Fellow in Assyriology at the University of Birmingham. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Faculty of Oriental Studies (2016-05-04). "Frances Reynolds - Faculty of Oriental Studies". University of Oxford. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  2. ↑ "Divine Women". Open University. Retrieved 2016-11-29.

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