William Schniedewind
William Schniedewind is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Languages in the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1992. He was a Research Fellow and later on the Board of Trustees of the Albright Insitute of Archaeological Research. He held the Kershaw Term Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies (2007-2017).
His research interests include social history of the ancient eastern Mediterranean world, sociolinguistics of Classical Hebrew, and ancient biblical interpretation. He was the Director of the Qumran Virtual Reality Project. He served on the Board of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (Jerusalem), and is on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Biblical Literature, Tel Aviv, Writings of the Ancient World, and the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
He has authored five books: The Word of God in Transition (Sheffield, 1995), Society and the Promise to David (Oxford, 1999), How the Bible Became a Book (Cambridge, 2004), A Primer on Ugaritic (Cambridge, 2007), A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period (Yale University Press, 2013). He also edited the Brill edition of the El-Amarna Correspondence by Anson F. Rainey.
Supervisors: Michael Fishbane and Marc Brettler
Address: Kaplan Hall 380, MC 151105
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511
His research interests include social history of the ancient eastern Mediterranean world, sociolinguistics of Classical Hebrew, and ancient biblical interpretation. He was the Director of the Qumran Virtual Reality Project. He served on the Board of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (Jerusalem), and is on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Biblical Literature, Tel Aviv, Writings of the Ancient World, and the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
He has authored five books: The Word of God in Transition (Sheffield, 1995), Society and the Promise to David (Oxford, 1999), How the Bible Became a Book (Cambridge, 2004), A Primer on Ugaritic (Cambridge, 2007), A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period (Yale University Press, 2013). He also edited the Brill edition of the El-Amarna Correspondence by Anson F. Rainey.
Supervisors: Michael Fishbane and Marc Brettler
Address: Kaplan Hall 380, MC 151105
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511
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Books by William Schniedewind
2. The Origins of Hebrew: In Search of the Holy Tongue
3. Early Hebrew Writing
4. Linguistic Nationalism and the Emergence of Hebrew
5. The Democratization of Hebrew
6. Hebrew in Exile
7. Hebrew under Imperialism
8. Hebrew in the Hellenistic World
9. The End and the Beginning of Hebrew
10. Epilogue
Papers by William Schniedewind
2. The Origins of Hebrew: In Search of the Holy Tongue
3. Early Hebrew Writing
4. Linguistic Nationalism and the Emergence of Hebrew
5. The Democratization of Hebrew
6. Hebrew in Exile
7. Hebrew under Imperialism
8. Hebrew in the Hellenistic World
9. The End and the Beginning of Hebrew
10. Epilogue