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Ronan McLaverty-Head

University of Worcester, Institute of Education, Faculty Member

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Associate Lecturer, University of Worcester
Head of Religion and Philosophy | Head of Oxbridge Applications, The King's School Worcester
Editor, Theological Book Review Online

BA Ancient History (First Class), Birmingham, 2000
MPhil Oriental Studies, Oxford, 2002
PGCE Religious Studies, Oxford, 2007
PhD Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins, 2010
Supervisors: Raymond Westbrook and Jerrold Cooper
Address: The King's School
College Green
Worcester WR1 2LL

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Near Eastern Studies and the Bible by Ronan McLaverty-Head

Two Tablets from the Johns Hopkins University Collection

by Ronan McLaverty-Head and Zsombor J Földi

Cuneiform Digital Library Bulletin, 2014

Editions of JHU T061 and JHU T202.

The Politics of Feasting in the Ancient Near East

By Our Rites of Worship: Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in History, Scripture, and Practice (Edited by D.L. Belnap), 2013

A discussion of food rituals from the Ancient Near East to modern America.

Amarna Messengers and the Politics of Feasting

Maarav, 2011

Food rituals, elite commensality, and diplomacy in the Amarna letters.

The Investiture Panel at Mari and Rituals of Divine Kingship in the Ancient Near East

Studies in the Bible and Antiquity, 2012

A reconstruction of the ritual suggested by the Investiture Panel at Mari.

Assyria at Bisitun and the Universal Kingship of Darius I of Persia

Your Praise is Sweet: A Memorial Volume for Jeremy Black from Students, Colleagues and Friends (Edited by H.D. Baker, E. Robson, and G. Zólyomi), 2010

A survey of the Assyrian motifs evident at Bisitun.

A Brief Survey of Ancient Near Eastern Beekeeping

FARMS Review, 2008

Beekeeping in the ancient Near East (with reference to the claimed "deseret" bee).

Religious Studies by Ronan McLaverty-Head

Job and John: The Satans

As Iron Sharpens Iron: Listening to the Various Voices of Scripture (Edited by J.M. Smith), 2016

Unity and the King James Bible

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 2012

The use of the KJV in Anglophone Mormonism as a unifying device.

"An American Enterprise": An Interview with Massimo Introvigne

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 2011

Mormonism's Satan and the Tree of Life

Element 4.2, 2008

On Mormon theology of the devil.

Creating a Mormon Mecca in England: The Gadfield Elm Chapel

Mormon Historical Studies 7.1-2, 2006

The Gadfield Elm Chapel as Sacred Space.

Religious Education by Ronan McLaverty-Head

Attitudes on the fringe

Professional REflection, 2015

The experience of NRM children in English Religious Education and implications derived therefrom.

The Experience of Mormon Children in English School-Based Religious Education and Collective Worship

International Journal of Mormon Studies 2, 2009

A preliminary discussion of Mormon pupils' attitudes towards religious education and collective w... more

Reviews by Ronan McLaverty-Head

Terry Givens and Matthew Grow, Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism

IJMS, 2013

Maynard P. Maidman, Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence

RBL, Mar 2012

Peter Vardy, Good and Bad Religion

Church Times, May 13, 2011

Richard H. Hiers, Justice and Compassion in Biblical Law

Theological Book Review, 2010

John W. Welch, The Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Studies 42.3, 2009

Dissertation by Ronan McLaverty-Head

The Business Activities of Neo-Babylonian Private Slaves and the Problem of Peculium

This dissertation provides a survey of the independent business activities engaged in by slaves o... more

Popular articles by Ronan McLaverty-Head

Corruption in the Classical World

Classical Wisdom, 2020

Two Tablets from the Johns Hopkins University Collection

by Ronan McLaverty-Head and Zsombor J Földi

Cuneiform Digital Library Bulletin, 2014

Editions of JHU T061 and JHU T202.

The Politics of Feasting in the Ancient Near East

By Our Rites of Worship: Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in History, Scripture, and Practice (Edited by D.L. Belnap), 2013

A discussion of food rituals from the Ancient Near East to modern America.

Amarna Messengers and the Politics of Feasting

Maarav, 2011

Food rituals, elite commensality, and diplomacy in the Amarna letters.

The Investiture Panel at Mari and Rituals of Divine Kingship in the Ancient Near East

Studies in the Bible and Antiquity, 2012

A reconstruction of the ritual suggested by the Investiture Panel at Mari.

Assyria at Bisitun and the Universal Kingship of Darius I of Persia

Your Praise is Sweet: A Memorial Volume for Jeremy Black from Students, Colleagues and Friends (Edited by H.D. Baker, E. Robson, and G. Zólyomi), 2010

A survey of the Assyrian motifs evident at Bisitun.

A Brief Survey of Ancient Near Eastern Beekeeping

FARMS Review, 2008

Beekeeping in the ancient Near East (with reference to the claimed "deseret" bee).

Job and John: The Satans

As Iron Sharpens Iron: Listening to the Various Voices of Scripture (Edited by J.M. Smith), 2016

Unity and the King James Bible

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 2012

The use of the KJV in Anglophone Mormonism as a unifying device.

"An American Enterprise": An Interview with Massimo Introvigne

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 2011

Mormonism's Satan and the Tree of Life

Element 4.2, 2008

On Mormon theology of the devil.

Creating a Mormon Mecca in England: The Gadfield Elm Chapel

Mormon Historical Studies 7.1-2, 2006

The Gadfield Elm Chapel as Sacred Space.

Attitudes on the fringe

Professional REflection, 2015

The experience of NRM children in English Religious Education and implications derived therefrom.

The Experience of Mormon Children in English School-Based Religious Education and Collective Worship

International Journal of Mormon Studies 2, 2009

A preliminary discussion of Mormon pupils' attitudes towards religious education and collective w... more

Terry Givens and Matthew Grow, Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism

IJMS, 2013

Maynard P. Maidman, Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence

RBL, Mar 2012

Peter Vardy, Good and Bad Religion

Church Times, May 13, 2011

Richard H. Hiers, Justice and Compassion in Biblical Law

Theological Book Review, 2010

John W. Welch, The Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Studies 42.3, 2009

The Business Activities of Neo-Babylonian Private Slaves and the Problem of Peculium

This dissertation provides a survey of the independent business activities engaged in by slaves o... more

Corruption in the Classical World

Classical Wisdom, 2020

Mesopotamian Echoes in Greek mythology

Classical Wisdom, 2020

What religious education really looks like

A response to the call to reform RE.

Missing the Point about Atrocities in the Bible

Church Times, Jul 9, 2010

Why both fundamentalists and the new atheists have it wrong about biblical violence.

Destinations: The Impregnable Rock of Van

Archaeology Odyssey 5.6, 2002

Travel to Van in eastern Turkey.

The Recovery of the Gilgamesh Epic’s Opening Lines

Archaeology Odyssey 2.3, 1999

Assyrian Reliefs Found Again

Archaeology Odyssey 2.1, 1999

Carvings from the Palaces of Sennacherib and Ashurbanipal turn up in Eastnor Castle.