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Mark S. Smith

Religious Studies

#420

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#816

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#195

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Biblical Studies

#24

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#28

Historical Rank

#15

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Bachelors Religion Duke University

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According to Wikipedia, Mark Stratton John Matthew Smith is an American biblical scholar, anthropologist, and professor. Early life and education Born in Paris to Donald Eugene Smith and Mary Elizabeth Reichert, Smith grew up in Washington, D.C., with his six sisters and two brothers. For elementary school, he attended Blessed Sacrament School. For grades 7–12, he went to St. Anselm's Abbey School.

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Mark S. Smith's Published Works

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The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts (2001) (163)
The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel (1990) (163)
A history of Israelite religion in the Old Testament period (1994) (146)
The Origins of Biblical Monotheism (2001) (122)
The Ugaritic Baal Cycle (2009) (64)
The memoirs of God : history, memory, and the experience of the divine in ancient Israel (2004) (50)
Introduction with text, translation and commentary of KTU/CAT 1.3-1.4 (2008) (49)
Ugaritic Narrative Poetry (1997) (40)
Your people shall be my people : Family and covenant in Ruth 1: 16-17 (2007) (36)
God in Translation: Deities in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Biblical World (2008) (32)
Ktu/Cat 1.3 (2009) (31)
The Priestly Vision of Genesis 1 (2009) (29)
God in Translation (2008) (28)
The Near Eastern Background of Solar Language for Yahweh (1990) (23)
Untold Stories: The Bible and Ugaritic Studies in the Twentieth Century (2001) (22)
The Origins and Development of the Waw-Consecutive: Northwest Semitic Evidence from Ugarit to Qumran (1991) (20)
The Heart and Innards in Israelite Emotional Expressions: Notes from Anthropology and Psychobiology (1998) (20)
Dynamics of Diselection: Ambiguity in Genetics 12-36 and Ethnic Boundaries in Post-Exilic Judah (2002) (16)
Remembering God: Collective memory in israelite religion (2002) (15)
Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Corpus and Concordance (1995) (14)
Supplements to Vetus Testamentum (2009) (13)
Death and Afterlife in Ugarit and Israel (1988) (12)
The Rituals and Myths of the Feast of the Goodly Gods of KTU/CAT 1.23: Royal Constructions of Opposition, Intersection, Integration, and Domination (2006) (11)
The Early History of Heaven (review) (2011) (10)
Setting and Rhetoric in Psalm 23 (1988) (10)
Ugaritic Studies and Israelite Religion: A Retrospective View (2002) (9)
The Three Bodies of God in the Hebrew Bible (2015) (7)
The Triumph of Elohim: From Yahwisms to Judaisms (1996) (6)
Poetic Heroes: Literary Commemorations of Warriors and Warrior Culture in the Early Biblical World (2014) (6)
God Male and Female in the Old Testament: Yahweh and His “Asherah” (1987) (6)
Guerrilla Negotiating: Unconventional Weapons and Tactics to Get What You Want (1999) (5)
The laments of Jeremiah and their contexts : a literary and redactional study of Jeremiah 11-20 (1990) (5)
Review of The Mythic Mind: Essays on Cosmology and Religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature (BibleWorld Series; London/Oakville: Equinox, 2005). (2006) (5)
Concepts of the other in Near Eastern religions (1998) (5)
The Psalms as a Book for Pilgrims (1992) (5)
The death of “dying and rising gods” in the biblical world: An update, with special reference to Baal in the Baal cycle (1998) (4)
Death and Afterlife in Ugarit and Israel@@@Beatific Afterlife in Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East@@@Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, I (1988) (4)
:The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity (2004) (4)
Biblical narrative between ugaritic and akkadian literature1Part I: Ugarit and the hebrew bible: Consideration of comparative research (2007) (4)
The Literary Arrangement of the Priestly Redaction of the Book of Exodus: A Preliminary Investigation (1996) (4)
The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils, AD 431-451 (2018) (3)
4Q462 (Narrative) Fragment 1 : A Preliminary Edition (1991) (2)
Converted and Unconverted Perfect and Imperfect Forms in the Literature of Qumran (1991) (2)
Psalm 8:2b-3 : New proposals for old problems (1997) (2)
Monotheism in Isaiah 40–55 (2001) (2)
Berit 'am/Berit 'olam: A New Proposal for the Crux of Isa 42:6 (1981) (2)
The Memoirs of God (2004) (2)
What Is A Scriptural Text In The Second Temple Period? Texts Between Their Biblical Past, Their Inner-Biblical Interpretation, Their Reception In Second Temple Literature, And Their Textual Witnesses (2010) (2)
Evil in Genesis and Other Ancient Near Eastern Creation Stories (2021) (1)
Ugaritic and Biblical Literature (2015) (1)
Probative Pontificating in Ugaritic and Biblical Literature Collected Essays (1994) (1)
THE INFINITIVE ABSOLUTE AS PREDICATIVE VERB IN BEN SIRA AND THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS: A PRELIMINARY SURVEY (2000) (1)
Biblical and Canaanite Notes to the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice from Qumran (1987) (1)
The laments of Jeremiah and their contexts (1990) (1)
Biblical narrative between ugaritic and akkadian literature Part II: Mesopotamian impact on biblical narrative (2007) (1)
The Invocation of Deceased Ancestors in Psalm 49:12c (1993) (1)
:Palace and Temple: A Study of Architectural and Verbal Icons (2005) (1)
Other Texts Cited (1994) (1)
The Problem of the God and His Manifestations: The Case of the Baals at Ugarit, with Implications for Yahweh of Various Locales (2012) (1)
Why was “Old Poetry” Used in Hebrew Narrative? Historical and Cultural Considerations about Judges 5 (2012) (1)
The Structure of Psalm Lxxxvii (1988) (1)
YHWH’s Original Character: Questions about an Unknown God (2017) (1)
Monotheism and the redefinition of divinity in ancient Israel ( Monotheism and the redefinition of divinity in ancient Israel) (2015) (1)
Grammatically Speaking: The Participle as a Main Verb of Clauses (Predicative Participle) in Direct Discourse and Narrative in Pre-Mishnaic Hebrew (1999) (1)
Translation of Cat 1.3 and 1.4 (2009) (0)
History as Harlotry in the Book of Ezekiel Textual Expansion in Ezekiel 16 (2021) (0)
Redactional Theology of Biblical Books: An Example from the Psalter (1993) (0)
Review of Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 2005). (2006) (0)
Primary and Secondary Religion in Psalms 91 and 139: A Response to Andreas Wagner (2006) (0)
How To Write a Poem: The Case of Psalm 151A in 11QPsa 28:3-12 (1996) (0)
The Formation of Monotheistic Theologies in Biblical Literature (2001) (0)
Reflections on imagining ngaruawahia: Public history and the production of knowledge (2011) (0)
The Council of Nicaea and Its Early Reception (2018) (0)
The Contribution of Frank Moore Cross to Ugaritic Studies (2014) (0)
Theism and Violence in the Ancient World: The Argument of Jan Assmann (2009) (0)
The Idea of Nicaea at the Constantinopolitan Home Synod (448) (2018) (0)
Before Human Sin and Evil: Desire and Fear in the Garden of God (2019) (0)
Enhancing the congregation's appreciation for the scriptural doctrine of angels (1996) (0)
The Idea of Nicaea in the Two Councils of Ephesus (431) (2018) (0)
The Impact of Interactive Whiteboard Technology on Ninth Grade English at Selected Rural High Schools in Upstate South Carolina. (2013) (0)
The Waw-Consecutive in Hebrew Prose (2009) (0)
Studies in Northwest Semitic. Robert Althann (2000) (0)
Ugaritic Narrative Poetry (introduction, text, translation and notes for the Baal Cycle) (1997) (0)
Cat 1.3 VI + Cat 1.8 (2009) (0)
Michael L. Satlow. How the Bible Became Holy . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 368 pp. (2015) (0)
Anat's Warfare Cannibalism and the Biblical Herem (1995) (0)
'Psalm 8 and the Politics of Creation' and Terms of Endearment: Calf and Dog in Anat's Speech in KTU 1.3 III (1995) (0)
El, Yahweh, and the Original God of Israel and the Exodus (2001) (0)
Tue Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for a Hebrew Goddess. (Reviews of Books) (2002) (0)
Jeremiah: An Archaeological Companion. Philip J. King (1997) (0)
W. F. Albright and His “Household”: (2020) (0)
Qumran Cave XIV: Parabiblical Texts, Part 2 (1995) (0)
The Genesis of Good and Evil: The Fall(out) and Original Sin in the Bible (2019) (0)
Review of Nick Wyatt, The Mythic Mind: Essays on Cosmology and Religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature (2008) (0)
Introduction: Nicaea in Context (2018) (0)
Review of The Rephaim: Sons of the Gods (2023) (0)
The Emergence of Monotheistic Rhetoric in Ancient Judah (2001) (0)
Textual Interpretation in 7th-6th Century Israel. Between Competition, Textualisation, and Tradition (2012) (0)
A Letter That Has Not Been Read: Dreams in the Hebrew Bible (review) (2012) (0)
The Waw-Consecutive in Qumran Literature (2009) (0)
Ugaritic Studies and the Hebrew Bible, 1968-1998 (with an Excursus on Judean Monotheism and the Ugaritic Texts) (2000) (0)
The Idea of Nicaea in the Aftermath of Ephesus (2018) (0)
Gender inversion in the ancient poetry of heroic pairs (2013) (0)
Index of Texts (2009) (0)
Guerrilla TeleSelling: New Unconventional Weapons and Tactics to Sell When You Can't be There in Person (1998) (0)
The Idea of Nicaea at Ephesus II (449) (2018) (0)
Review of Kenton L. Sparks, Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature (2009) (0)
Cat 1.3 III (2009) (0)
Views of Scholars Refuting Zoroastrian Influence (2012) (0)
The Idea of Nicaea at Chalcedon (451) (2018) (0)
Honorable Dispatches from South Carolina; or, What Some Graduate Students Think of Southern Honor (2008) (0)
Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism (review) (2009) (0)
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples (2018) (0)
Terms of Endearment: 'Dog' (klbt) and 'Calf' ('gl) in KTU 1.3 III 44-45 (1998) (0)
:The Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches (2004) (0)
JISMOR 9 Monotheism and the Redefinition of Divinity in Ancient Israel 1 ) (2014) (0)
The *qatala Form in Ugaritic Poetry and Hebrew Narrative (1995) (0)
Early Extra-biblical Evidence (2009) (0)

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The Early History of God