Baruch Halpern

About the Author

Baruch Halpern (Harvard 74) holds the Covenant Professorship in Religion at the University of Georgia, and was formerly Chaiken Family Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and of Ancient History, at Penn State. His publications center on ancient show more history, literature, language and archaeology. Kenneth S. Sacks is professor of History and Classics at Brown University. He works on the ancient Greek world (especially historiography and intellectual thought), classical reception in the United States, and American Transcendentalism. show less

Works by Baruch Halpern

The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History (1988) 116 copies, 1 review

The Emergence of Israel in Canaan (Society of Biblical Literature, Monographic Series, No. 29) (1983) 21 copies

Law and ideology in monarchic Israel (1991) 20 copies

Traditions in transformation : turning points in Biblical faith (1981) 19 copies

The Constitution of the Monarchy in Israel (Harvard Semitic Monographs) (1981) 13 copies

From Gods to God: The Dynamics of Iron Age Cosmologies (Forschungen Zum Alten Testament) (2009) 8 copies

The Books of Kings (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum) (2010) — Editor; Contributor — 8 copies

Cultural contact and appropriation in the Axial-age Mediterranean world : a periplos (2016) 3 copies

Law, Politics and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean World (1993) 2 copies

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The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present (1997) — Contributor — 29 copies

Study of the Ancient Near East in the 21st Century: The William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference (1996) — Contributor — 26 copies

The World of the Aramaeans I: Biblical Studies in Honour of Paul-Eugene Dion (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 324-326) (2001) — Contributor — 15 copies

Working with no data : Semitic and Egyptian studies presented to Thomas O. Lambdin (1987) — Contributor — 7 copies

Egypt, Israel, and the Ancient Mediterranean World: Studies in Honor of Donald B. Redford (Probleme Der Agyptologie, 20. Bd) (2004) — Contributor — 6 copies

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Birthdate: 1953-04-09
Gender: male
Education: Harvard College (AB|1973)
Harvard University (MA|1976, PhD|1978)
Organizations: American Schools of Oriental Research
Society of Biblical Literature
Israel Exploration Society
University of Georgia
York University [Ontario]
Penn State University
Awards and honors: Phi Beta Kappa
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Places of residence: North York, Ontario, Canada
Associated Place (for map): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History by Baruch Halpern

NO OF PAGES: 285 SUB CAT I: History SUB CAT II: SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: This volume is an attempt to rationalize an intuition: that historical narrative is not to be handled as are folklore or the elements of dramatization in historical narrative; that a historian's conviction is not formal evidence of concoction.NOTES: SUBTITLE: The Hebrew Bible and History

Feb 18, 2011