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CURRICULUM VITAE RONALD HENDEL Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies Department of Near Eastern Studies University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1940 [email protected] http://berkeley.academia.edu/RonHendel EDUCATION Ph.D. 1985 Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Field: Biblical History and Northwest Semitic Philology M.A. 1984 Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations A.B. 1981 Harvard University Concentration: Folklore and Mythology Magna cum laude with Highest Honors ACADEMIC POSITIONS Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies, University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, 2001-present Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1999- present Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University, 1985-99 AWARDS 1999 Best Book Relating to the Old Testament, Biblical Archaeology Society, for The Text of Genesis 1-11: Textual Studies and Critical Edition 1998 Frank Moore Cross Publications Award, American Schools of Oriental Research, for The Text of Genesis 1-11: Textual Studies and Critical Edition 1985 Mitchell Dahood Memorial Prize in Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic, Society of Biblical Literature, for The Epic of the Patriarch: The Jacob Cycle and the Narra- tive Traditions of Canaan and Israel FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 2016-17 Digital Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, University of California 2000, 2003 Humanities Research Fellowships, University of California, Berkeley 2 1991-92 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 1988 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Society of Biblical Literature Program unit chair, Methodological Pluralism in the Study of Genesis, 2016- Biblical Colloquium West (President, 2005-7; Vice-President, 2004-5) EDITORIAL BOARDS Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 2013-15 Henoch: Historical and Textual Studies in Ancient and Medieval Judaism and Christianity, 2011-present Hebrew Studies (National Association of Professors of Hebrew), 1995-97 Biblical Archaeologist/Near Eastern Archaeology (American Schools of Oriental Research), 1993-98 SERIES EDITOR The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition. SBL Press. MAJOR UNIVERSITY SERVICE (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY) Chair, Program in Jewish Studies, 2002-3, 2006, 2009-10 Chair, Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, 2007-8 Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies, 2000-2 PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 1. The Epic of the Patriarch: The Jacob Cycle and the Narrative Traditions of Canaan and Israel. Harvard Semitic Monographs 42; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987. 2. The Text of Genesis 1-11: Textual Studies and Critical Edition. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 3. Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible. New York/Ox- ford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 4. The Book of Genesis: A Biography. Lives of Great Religious Books. Princeton: Princeton Uni- versity Press, 2013. Italian translation: Il libro della Genesi. Le vie della civiltà. Bologna: Mulino, 2017. 5. Steps to a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible. Text-Critical Studies 10. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016. fc. How Old is the Hebrew Bible? A Linguistic, Textual, and Historical Study. Co-authored with Jan Joosten. Anchor Bible Reference Library. New Haven: Yale University Press. 3 EDITED BOOKS AND JOURNAL ISSUES 1. The Most Magic Word: Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature, by William L. Moran. Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series 54. Washington, DC: Catholic Biblical As- sociation, 2002. 2. Beyond Purity and Danger: Mary Douglas and Biblical Studies, co-edited with Saul Olyan. Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 8 (2008): http://www.jhsonline.org. 3. Reading Genesis: Ten Methods. New York/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. fc. The Political Power of Sacred Texts, co-edited with Dominik Markl. THE HEBREW BIBLE: A CRITICAL EDITION (GENERAL EDITOR) Michael V. Fox, Proverbs: An Eclectic Edition with Introduction and Textual Commentary. HBCE 1; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015. ARTICLES 1. “Ezekiel Saw the Wheel: A Case Study in the Conflict of Mythologies.” The Harvard Advo- cate (Autumn 1983), 26-28, 56-57. 2. “The Flame of the Whirling Sword: A Note on Genesis 3:24.” Journal of Biblical Literature 104 (1985), 671-74. 3. “Of Demigods and the Deluge: Toward an Interpretation of Genesis 6:1–4.” Journal of Bibli- cal Literature 106 (1987), 13-26. 4. “The Social Origins of the Aniconic Tradition in Early Israel.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 50 (1988), 365-82. 5. “Images of God in Ancient Israel.” Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 8 (1989), 81-82. 6. “Sacrifice as a Cultural System: The Ritual Symbolism of Exodus 24:3–8.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 101 (1989), 366-90. 7. “Worldmaking in Ancient Israel.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 56 (1992), 3-18. 8. “Finding Historical Memories in the Patriarchal Narratives.” Biblical Archaeology Review 21/4 (1994), 52-59, 70-72. 9. “The Shape of Utnapishtim’s Ark.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 107 (1995), 128-29. 10. “4Q252 and the Flood Chronology of Genesis 7–8: A Text-Critical Solution.” Dead Sea Dis- coveries 2 (1995), 72-79. 11. “Prophets, Priests, and the Efficacy of Ritual.” Pomegranates and Golden Bells: Studies in Biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom, eds. David P. Wright, David N. Freedman, and Avi Hurvitz (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1995), 185-98. 12. “Tangled Plots in Genesis.” Fortunate the Eyes that See: Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman, eds. Astrid B. Beck, Andrew H. Bartelt, Paul R. Raabe, and Chris A. Franke. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), 35-51. 13. “The Date of the Siloam Tunnel Inscription: A Rejoinder to Rogerson and Davies.” Biblical Archaeologist 59 (1996), 233-37. 4 14. “Sibilants and šibbōlet (Judges 12:6).” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 301 (1996), 69-75. 15. “In the Margins of the Hebrew Verbal System: Situation, Tense, Aspect, Mood.” Zeitschrift für Althebraistik 9 (1996), 152-81. 16. “The Poetics of Myth in Genesis.” The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth, ed. S. Daniel Breslauer (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997), 157-70. 17. “Aniconism and Anthropomorphism in Ancient Israel.” The Image and the Book: Iconic Cults, Aniconism, and the Veneration of the Holy Book in Israel and the Ancient Near East, ed. Karel van der Toorn (Leuven: Peeters, 1997), 205-28. 18. Revision of P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., “The Patriarchal Age.” Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple, ed. Hershel Shanks (2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall; Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1999), 1-31. 19. “On the Text-Critical Value of Septuagint Genesis: A Reply to Rösel.” Bulletin of the Inter- national Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies 32 (2000), 31-34. 20. “The Text of the Torah after Qumran: Prospects and Retrospects.” The Dead Sea Scrolls: Fifty Years after their Discovery, ed. Lawrence H. Schiffman, Emanuel Tov, and James C. VanderKam (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2000), 8-11. 21. “Qumran and a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible.” The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Vol. I: The Hebrew Bible and Qumran, ed. James Charlesworth (North Richland Hills, TX.: Bibal Press, 2000; reprinted, Waco, TX.: Baylor University Press, 2006), 197-217. 22. “‘Begetting’ and ‘Being Born’ in the Pentateuch: Notes on Historical Linguistics and Source Criticism.” Vetus Testamentum 50 (2000), 38-46. 23. “The Exodus in Biblical Memory.” Journal of Biblical Literature 120 (2001), 601-22. 24. “Israel Among the Nations: Biblical Culture in the Ancient Near East.” Cultures of the Jews: A New History, ed. David Biale (New York: Schocken Books, 2002), 42-75. 25. “The Nephilim Were On the Earth: Genesis 6:1-4 and Its Ancient Near Eastern Context.” The Fall of the Angels, ed. Christoph Auffarth and Loren Stuckenbruck (Leiden: Brill, 2004), 11-34. 26. “Analogy in Priestly Thought.” Journal of Ritual Studies 18 (2004), 172-85. 27. “Genesis 1-11 and Its Mesopotamian Problem.” Cultural Borrowings and Ethnic Appropria- tions in Antiquity, ed. Erich Gruen (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005), 23-36. 28. “The Archaeology of Memory: King Solomon, Chronology, and Biblical Representation.” Confronting the Past: Archaeological and Historical Essays on Ancient Israel in Honor of William G. Dever, ed. Seymour Gitin, J. Edward Wright, and J. P. Dessel (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2006), 219-30. 29. “Israelite Religion” and Introduction and Annotations to Genesis. The HarperCollins Study Bible, ed. Harold W. Attridge (New York: HarperCollins, 2006), xliv-xlviii, 3-82. 30. “Table and Altar: The Anthropology of Food in the Priestly Torah.” To Break Every Yoke: Essays in Honor of Marvin L. Chaney, ed. Robert B. Coote and Norman K. Gottwald (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007), 131-48. 31. “Plural Texts and Literary Criticism: For Instance, 1 Samuel 17.” Textus 23 (2007), 97-114. 32. “Mary Douglas and Anthropological Modernism.” Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 8 (2008), article 8 (http://www.jhsonline.org). 5 33. “The Oxford Hebrew Bible: Prologue to a New Critical Edition.” Vetus Testamentum 58 (2008), 324-351. 34. “Leitwort Style and Literary Structure in the J Primeval Narrative.” Sacred History, Sacred Literature: Essays on Ancient Israel, the Bible and