Ronald Stephen Hendel
Ronald Stephen Hendel is an American Judaist and university professor.
Life
He earned an AB Harvard University in 1981 with Concentration: Folklore and Mythology, an MA in 1984 from Harvard University, Department of Languages and Civilizations of the Middle East, and a Ph.D. in Biblical History and Northwest Semitic Philology at Harvard University in 1985, Department of Languages and Civilizations of the Middle East. 1985-1999 Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University . Since 1999 he has been Professor at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley (since 2001 Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies).
His research interests are textual criticism, the Hebrew Bible, ancient oriental religion and mythology, and northwest Semitic linguistics.
Fonts (selection)
- The epic of the patriarch. The Jacob cycle and the narrative traditions of Canaan and Israel . Atlanta 1987, ISBN 1-55540-184-8 .
- as editor: The Text of Genesis 1–11. Textual Studies and Critical Edition . Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-511961-4 .
- Remembering Abraham. Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible . Oxford 2005, ISBN 0-19-517796-7 .
- The Book of Genesis. A biography . Princeton 2013, ISBN 0-691-14012-X .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hendel, Ronald Stephen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hendel, Ronald; Hendel, Ronald S .; Hendel, Ron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Judaist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |