[Usyd_Classics_Events] Vale Noel Weeks

[Ben Brown]

Dear Friends,

It is with sadness that I inform you that of the death of Noel Weeks. Noel passed away on Sunday March 8th following a recurrence of metastatic melanoma.

Noel returned from the USA to Australia in 1971 to join the History (and eventually Ancient History) Department at the University of Sydney, where he taught Akkadian and ancient Near Eastern history. Noel wrote numerous books and articles, including Admonition and Curse (2004) and Sources and Authors (2011). He also co-edited (with Joseph Azize) the proceedings of “Gilgamesh and the World of Assyria” (2007), an international conference held at the University of Sydney in 2004.

Following his retirement in 2004, Noel remained an Honorary Associate in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney and was a regular contributor to the Macquarie Ancient Language School at Macquarie University, where he taught classes including Akkadian and Hittite.

Noel’s influence and passion for teaching afforded countless students the opportunity to study Assyriology and cuneiform languages as well as comparative Near Eastern history and historiography. He will be greatly missed by his students, colleagues, friends, church, loving family and wife, Jan.

The funeral will be held at the Shire Christian School on Saturday, March 14th at 11 a.m. The School is located at 16a Allies Road, Barden Ridge, NSW, 2234.

All very best, Ben

DR BEN BROWN
Classics and Ancient History
School Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator (SOPHI)
Research Seminar Coordinator (CAH)
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
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