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Baruch Halpern's Degrees

PhD Near Eastern Studies University of California, Berkeley
Masters Near Eastern Studies University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Baruch Halpern is the Covenant Foundation Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia. He was a leader of the archaeological digs at Tel Megiddo 1992–2007, as well as of an archaeological survey in southeastern Cilicia . As an undergraduate at Harvard in 1972, he wrote a political analysis of the Bible, which subsequently influenced research into its authorship.

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Baruch Halpern's Published Works

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The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History (1988) (78)
Megiddo III: The 1992-1996 Seasons (2002) (62)
David's Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King (2001) (40)
Megiddo IV : the 1998-2002 seasons (2006) (37)
The Hebrew Bible and Its Interpreters (1990) (31)
Sectionalism and the Schism (1974) (29)
The emergence of Israel in Canaan (1983) (29)
The Resourceful Israelite Historian: The Song of Deborah and Israelite Historiography (1983) (29)
From Gods to God (2009) (27)
The constitution of the monarchy in Israel (1981) (27)
The Jews in Babylonia during the Chaldean and Achaemenian Periods according to the Babylonian Sources (1983) (26)
Why Manasseh is blamed for the Babylonian exile: the evolution of a biblical tradition (1998) (19)
The fabric of history : text, artifact and Israel's past (1993) (19)
The Political Import of David's Marriages (1980) (18)
Law, politics and society in the ancient Mediterranean world (1994) (17)
Law and Ideology in Monarchic Israel (1993) (16)
The Stela from Dan: Epigraphic and Historical Considerations (1994) (15)
Colour Terms in the Old Testament (1982) (14)
The books of Kings : sources, composition, historiography and reception (2010) (12)
Traditions in transformation : turning points in Biblical faith (1981) (11)
Sacred History and Ideology: Chronicles' Thematic Structure Indications of an Earlier Source (1981) (10)
THE CENTRALIZATION FORMULA IN DEUTERONOMY (1981) (10)
Composition and Paronomasia in the Book of Jonah (1980) (10)
Levitic Participation in the Reform Cult of Jeroboam I (1976) (10)
The Exodus and the israelite historians (1993) (9)
From Gods to God: The Dynamics of Iron Age Cosmologies (2009) (7)
The Canine Conundrum of Ashkelon: A Classical Connection? (2000) (7)
The Composition Of Kings (2010) (6)
The Biblical Canon in Comparative Perspective: Scripture in Context IV (1994) (6)
The New Names of Isaiah 62:4: Jeremiah's Reception in the Restoration and the Politics of "Third Isaiah" (1998) (6)
The Rise of Abimelek Ben-Jerubbaal (1978) (5)
Eyewitness testimony: Parts of exodus written within living memory of the event (2003) (4)
The Gate of Megiddo and the Debate on the 10th Century (2000) (4)
Doctrine by Misadventure: Between the Israelite Source and the Biblical Historian (1983) (4)
"The Excremental Vision": The Doomed Priests of Doom in Isaiah 28 (1986) (3)
Research Design in Archaeology: The Interdisciplinary Perspective (1998) (3)
Eli's death and the Israelite gate : A philological-architectural correlation (1999) (3)
The Sea-Peoples and Identity (2015) (2)
A Landlord-Tenant Dispute at Ugarit? (1979) (2)
The Lachish Ostraca. Letters of the Time of Jeremiah (1992) (2)
Mikra: Text, Translation, Reading and Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (review) (2011) (1)
Late Israelite Astronomies and the Early Greeks (2003) (1)
Yaua, Son of Omri, Yet Again (1987) (1)
A Corpus of Ammonite Inscriptions Walter E. Aufrecht Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989. x1 + 517 p (1991) (1)
Yhwh's Summary Justice in Job Xiv 20 (1978) (1)
The assyrian astronomy of Genesis 1 and the birth of Milesian philosophy (2003) (1)
What Does Deuteronomy Centralize? (2021) (1)
Two Views of a History of Ancient Israel (2010) (1)
Book Review:The Hebrew Bible: A Socio-Literary Interpretation Norman K. Gottwald (1988) (0)
Halpern's "Israel in Canaan" (1985) (0)
How Golden Is the Marshaltown, How Holey the Scripture? (1996) (0)
Klaas A. D. Smelik. Converting the Past: Studies in Ancient Israelite and Moabite Historiography . Oudtestamentische Studien, Deel XXVIII. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992. viii, 209 pp. (1995) (0)
The Pattern for Mundane Leadership in Israel (1981) (0)
Book Review:Ancient Judaism: Biblical Criticism from Max Weber to the Present Irving M. Zeitlin (1987) (0)
Halpern, "The First Historians" (1992) (0)
When Chimaeras were Chimaeras (2016) (0)
Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Religion, and Government. Edited by Kevin Avruch and Walter P. Zenner Books on Israel, IV. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1997. 229 pp. $49.50 cloth; $17.95 paper (1998) (0)
Fracturing the Exodus, as Told by Edward Everett Horton (2015) (0)
In Defense of Forgery (2008) (0)
Book Review:The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History James L. Kugel (1985) (0)
Fleming, Daniel E.The Legacy of Israel in Judah’s Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxii+385 pp. $32.99 (paper). (2014) (0)
Robert G. Boling and G. Ernest Wright. Joshua . Anchor Bible, vol. 6. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1982. xix, 580 pp., with 4 pl. and 11 maps. (1985) (0)
Book Review:Property Rights in the Eighth-Century Prophets John Andrew Dearman (1989) (0)
Hezekiah and the Books of Kings: A Contribution to the Debate about the Composition of the Deuteronomistic History (review) (2011) (0)
The Deuteronomistic History Hypothesis: A Reassessment (review) (2011) (0)
The Housebreaking Law of Exodus 21:37–22:3: A Synchronic View (2013) (0)
A. Malamat, Yisrael bi-t e qupat ham-miqra (Israel in Biblical Times. Historical Essays) (1986) (0)
Word Biblical Themes: 1, 2 Kings T. R. Hobbs Dallas: Word Books, 1989. xiv + 104 p (1991) (0)
Voyage to Yarimuta (2011) (0)
Ancient Israelite Religion: Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross. Patrick D. Miller, Jr. , Paul D. Hanson , S. Dean McBride (1988) (0)
The Royal Ritual (1981) (0)
Theories of Dynasty in Israel (1981) (0)
Book Review:Micah and Isaiah: A Form and Tradition Historical Comparison Gary Stansell (1989) (0)

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