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Peter Machinist

Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages

6 Divinity Avenue, Room 301

617-495-0333

machinis@fas.harvard.edu

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Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, received his M.Phil and Ph.D. from Yale University in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and A.B. from Harvard College in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures.

Before coming to Harvard, he held positions as Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Ancient Near Eastern History at the University of Arizona, Tucson and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and lecturer in the Department of Assyriology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

His research interests include Biblical Studies and Syro-Palestinian history, Hebrew and other ancient Semitic languages, and ancient Mesopotamian studies.

COURSES :

[Ancient Near East 107. History and Historiography in the Ancient Near East]
Catalog Number: 0665

[Ancient Near East 121. History of the Study of the Hebrew Bible: From the Renaissance to the Present: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 8086

Ancient Near East 124. Myth and Myth-Making in the Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern World
Catalog Number: 7859

[Ancient Near East 126. History of the Religion of Israel]
Catalog Number: 1672

[Ancient Near East 127. Prophecy in Ancient Israel]
Catalog Number: 6739

[Akkadian 150. Akkadian Historiographic Texts]
Catalog Number: 2417

[Akkadian 152. Texts and History of Imperial Assyria]
Catalog Number: 3226

 
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
 He has published Provincial Government in Middle Assyria and some New Texts from Yale; Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (with Steven W. Cole and Simo Parpola); "Outsiders or Insiders: The Biblical View of Emergent Israel and Its Contexts," among other works.
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LINKS:

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Prof. Machinist's page at the NELC

Harvard Divinity School

Prof. Machinist's page at the Divinity School

 
 
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