1997-1998 Semester

Text, Artifact and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion

Name
Area of Research
Gary Beckman
University of Michigan
Hittite Ritual
Amnon Ben-Tor
Hebrew University
Ellie and Herb Katz Distinguished Fellow
Excavation and Investigation of Tel-Hazor
Adele Berlin (F)
University of Maryland
The Absence of God in the Books of Esther and Lamentations
Linda Bregstein
Penn State University
Lucius N. Littauer Fellow
Religious Attitudes in Babylonia under the Persian Empire: The
Contribution of Signet-seal Studies
Barry Eichler
University of Pennsylvania
Inanna: Her Myth, Iconography and Cult
Nili Fox
University of Pennsylvnia
Erica A. Strauss Teaching Fellow
A Typological Study of Legitimate and Illegitimate Cult Objects
Tikva Frymer-Kensky
University of Chicago
Moses Aaron Dropsie Fellow
Biblical Religion and Liturgies to the Goddesses of Sumer and Babylon
Seymour Gitin (F)
Albright Institute of
Archaeological Research
Philistine Cult in the 7th Century BCE
Wayne Horowitz (S)
Hebrew University
Cuneiform Writing in Canaan
Victor Hurowitz
Ben-Gurion University
Biblical Attitudes Towards Idols in their Ancient Near Eastern Context
Jacob Klein
Bar-Ilan University
Mesopotamian and Biblical Royal Hymns: A Comparative Study
Theodore Lewis
University of Georgia
The Religion of Ancient Israel
Saul Olyan
Brown University
Clean/Unclean and other Binary Oppositions in the Israelite Cult
Tallay Ornan-Bigelman (S)
Israel Museum
Idol versus Symbol: Divine Representations in Mesopotamia
Gary Rendsburg
Cornell University
Nancy and Lawrence Glick Teaching Fellow
Egypt and Israel: The Story of Exodus 1-15
Mark Smith
Saint Joseph’s University
An Examination of Divinity in Akkadian, Ugaritic and Israelite Literature
Ziony Zevit (F)
University of Judaism
The Practice of Religion from the Iron Age through the Early Hellenistic period
ASSOCIATE FELLOW
Bernard Levinson
University of Minnesota
Imagining Sinai: Revelation and Textuality in Ancient Israel