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John Huehnergard: Curriculum Vitae e-mail: [email protected] website: https://utexas.academia.edu/JohnHuehnergard Degrees 1974 B.A., Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario; Religion and Culture, honours) 1979 Ph.D., Harvard University (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; degree awarded with distinction) 2014 Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa), The University of Chicago Teaching Positions 1978–83 Assistant Professor, Department of Middle East Languages and Cultures and Depart- ment of History, Columbia University 1983–88 Associate Professor of Semitic Philology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University 1985–86 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, The Johns Hopkins University 1988–2009 Professor of Semitic Philology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civiliza- tions, Harvard University; Director of Graduate Studies, 1989–91, 2003–05; Department Chair, 1991–95, 2004, 2008–09 2009–17 Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin 2009–17 2017– Professor Emeritus, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin Professional Activities Co-editor, Harvard Semitic Studies (1992–2017) Editorial Boards: Folia Orientalia; Lehrbücher altorientalischer Sprachen; Scripta (co-editor, 2009– 2011) Member, American Oriental Society (President, 2017–18); Linguistic Society of America Member of the Executive Committee, Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database Project Co-convener, North American Conference on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (1992, 2010, 2011) Fellowships Institute for Advanced Study, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2001–02 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2005–06 Huehnergard, c.v. - page 2 Courses Taught Akkadian History Introduction Ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia Intermediate Ancient Egypt and the Levant Old Akkadian and Eblaite Proseminar in Ancient Near Eastern Old Assyrian and Middle Assyrian Studies Old Babylonian Letters The Queen of Sheba in History and Le- Peripheral Dialects gend Historical Grammar Modern South Arabian Languages Arabic Introduction and Texts Introduction to Qurʔanic Old South Arabian Languages Old North Arabian Grammar and Texts Introduction and Texts Aramaic Semitic Linguistics Introduction to Targumic Introduction to the Comparative Gram- Babylonian Talmudic mar of the Semitic Languages Old, Imperial, and Biblical Seminar in Comparative Semitic Gram- Qumran mar Dialectology Seminar in Early Northwest Semitic Egyptian Grammar Introduction to Middle Egyptian Sumerian Ethiopian Semitic Introduction Introduction to Classical Ethiopic Ugaritic (Gəʕəz) Introduction Readings in Classical Ethiopic (Gəʕəz) Seminar in Ugaritic texts Amharic for Reading Tigrinya for Reading Writing Hebrew (Biblical) Writing Systems, Scripts, and Literacy Lost Languages and Decipherment Introduction Intermediate Rapid Reading Advanced Intensive Historical Grammar Huehnergard, c.v. - page 3 Publications In Press The Legacy of Akkadian. In A History of the Akkadian Language, ed. Juan Pablo Vita. Handbuch der Orientalistik. Leiden / Boston: Brill. Ugaritic ǵ from Proto-Semitic *θ̣. In a Festschrift. Tattoo and Tophet: Two Hebrew Etymologies. In A Memorial Volume for Michael Patrick O’Connor, ed Edward L. Greenstein. Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. Of People and Tongues: Semitic *nis- and *lisān-. In a Festschrift. Review of Gregorio del Olmo Lete and Joaquín Sanmartín, A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition, 3rd ed. Journal of the American Oriental Society. The Hebrew and Aramaic Languages (revision), with Jo Ann Hackett. In The Biblical World, 2nd edition, ed. Katherine Dell. London: Routledge. The Name Ashkelon. In a Festschrift. The Etymology of Hebrew bāḥûr. In a Festschrift. The Origin of the Semitic Relative Marker, with Na‘ama Pat-El. 2017 Arabic in Its Semitic Context. In Arabic in Context, Celebrating 400 Years of Arabic at Leiden University, ed. Ahmad Al-Jallad. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 89. Leiden / Boston: Brill. 3–34. Review of Josef Tropper, Ugaritische Grammatik, 2nd ed. Journal of the American Oriental Society 137/2: 413–16. 2015 Biblical Hebrew Nominal Patterns. In Epigraphy, Philology, and the Hebrew Bible: Methodological Perspectives on Philological and Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Jo Ann Hackett, ed. Jeremy M. Hutton and Aaron D. Rubin. Society of Biblical Literature Ancient Near East Mono- graphs 12. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature. 25–64. 2014 Proceedings of the Oslo–Austin Workshop in Semitic Linguistics, Oslo, May 23 and 24, 2013. Co-editor with Lutz Edzard. Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 88. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Reanalysis and New Roots: An Akkadian Perspective. Ibid. 9–27. The Semitic Background of Arabic faqīr ‘poor’. In No Tapping around Philology: Festschrift in Honor of Wheeler McIntosh Thacskton’s 70th Birthday, ed. Alireza Korangy and Daniel Sheffield. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 243–54. except’, with Aren Wilson-Wright. Hebrew Studies‘ זוּלָתִי A Compound Etymology for Biblical Hebrew 55: 261–71. The Contributions of Frank Moore Cross to Semitic and Hebrew Philology. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 372: 167–70. An Introduction to Ugaritic, second printing. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson. 2013 Key to A Grammar of Akkadian, third edition. Harvard Semitic Studies 46. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. Huehnergard, c.v. - page 4 Journal of Language Contact, volume 6.2, special issue on contact among genetically related languages. Co-editor with Patience Epps and Na‘ama Pat-El. Introduction: Contact among Genetically Related Languages, with Patience Epps and Na‘ama Pat-El. Ibid. 219–29. Akkadian e and Semitic Root Integrity. Babel und Bibel 7. 445–75. The Biblical Prohibition against Tattooing, with Harold Liebowitz. Vetus Testamentum 63: 59–77. The Etymology of Hebrew and Aramaic ykl ‘to be able’, with Saul M. Olyan. Journal of Semitic Studies 58: 13–19. Canaanite Shift. In Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, ed. Geoffrey Khan. Leiden: Brill. 1.395. English, Hebrew Loanwords in. Ibid. 1.828–29. Philippi’s Law. Ibid. 3.70–71. Relative Particles. Ibid. 3.363–64. Segholates: Pre-Modern Hebrew. Ibid. 3.520–22. Semitic Language, Hebrew as a. Ibid. 3.528–31. 2012 An Introduction to Ugaritic. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson. Third Person Possessive Suffixes as Definite Articles in Semitic, with Na‘ama Pat-El. Journal of Historical Linguistics 2: 25–51. Languages of the Ancient Near East: An Annotated Bibliography, with Na‘ama Pat-El. http://utexas .academia.edu/JohnHuehnergard. A Byblos Letter, Probably from Kāmid el-Lōz. In Kāmid el-Lōz, vol. 20: Die Keilschriftbriefe und der Horizont von el-Amarna, ed. Rolf Hackmann. Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 87. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt. 87–102. Reprint of 1996 article. Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle. In Who’s Who in the Natural World: Selections from a 10-year Ramble through a Corner of New England, by Kay Fairweather. Carlisle, MA: Carlisle Communications. 124– 25. Reprint of 2006 article. 2011 A Grammar of Akkadian, third edition. Harvard Semitic Studies 45. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. Proto-Semitic Language and Culture. In The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fifth edition. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2066–69. Guide to Appendix II. Ibid. 2070–71. Appendix II: Semitic Roots. Ibid. 2072–78. Etymologies of words of Semitic origin. Ibid. passim. Phyla and Waves: Models of Classification, with Aaron D. Rubin. In Semitic Languages: An International Handbook, ed. Stefan Weninger in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, and Janet Watson. Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton. 259– 78. Hebrew and other Semitic Cognates to the Lesson Vocabularies in A Grammar of Akkadian. http://utexas .academia.edu/JohnHuehnergard. Huehnergard, c.v. - page 5 The Akkadian of Ugarit. Harvard Semitic Studies 34. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. Paperback reprint of 1989 edition. Review of Rainer Voigt, ed., Akten des 7. internationalen Semitohamitistenkongresses, Berlin 2004. Jour- nal of the American Oriental Society 131: 692–93. Commentary: Don’t Close Book on Humanities, with Jo Ann Hackett. Austin American-Statesman, Sunday, May 15. Section D, pages 1, 8. Online: Two Texas Professors on Why Academic Research Matters, http://www.statesman.com/opinion/insight/two-texas-professors-on-why-academic-research- matters-1475412.html. Also in Houston Chronicle, Monday, May 16. 2010 Hammurabi. In Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, second edition, ed. William H. McNeill. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire. 3.1185–86. Reader, exercises and texts. In Jo Ann Hackett, A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson. 2009 A Proper View of Arabic, Semitic, and More: A Response to George Mendenhall, with Gary A. Rendsburg and Aaron D. Rubin. Journal of the American Oriental Society 128 (2008, appeared 2009): 533–41. Silver from the Souk: Semitic Loanwords in English. In The Bible and Our World: Ancient Lessons for Today. DVD. Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society. Key to A Grammar of Akkadian, second edition, second, revised printing. Harvard Semitic Studies 46. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. Cover photographs and other photographs, in Susan Drinker Moran, The House at Bunganuc Landing. Topsham, ME: Just Write Books. 2008 Ugaritic Vocabulary in Syllabic Transcription, revised