- William Schniedewind
William M. Schniedewind, Ph.D., M.A., is Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, the Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies, and Professor of Biblical Studies and Northwest Semitic Languages at the
University of California .He has a B.A. in Religion, from
George Fox University inNewberg ,Oregon , an M.A. in Historical Geography of Ancient Israel, fromJerusalem University College , and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, fromBrandeis University .Schniedewind serves on the Steering Committees for both the [http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/religion/home.html Center for the Study of Religion] and the Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA.cite web | url=http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Schniedewind.htm
title = William M. Schniedewind, Faculty Page, UCLA NELC
url = http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Schniedewind.htm|publisher=UCLA ] He serves as Network Editor for the Dead Sea Scrolls & Second Temple Judaism section of [http://www.cssr.org/ Religious Studies Review] , and on the Program Committee for the Hebrew Bible, History, and Archaeology Section of theSociety of Biblical Literature .An article in
The Christian Century , refers to Schniedewind as having demonstrated in his book "How the Bible Became a Book", his knowledge of the archaeology of ancient Israel, the history of the Hebrew language, and the development historical literature based on theBible . [ Carr;, David "The Christian Century", Vol. 121,August 24 , 2004.]Schniedewind is listed in the 2007 "Distinguished Lecturer Series Speaker Biographies" in the Dead Sea Scroll exhibition at the
San Diego Natural History Museum . [cite web | url=http://www.sdnhm.org/scrolls/speakers/index.html|title=Distinguished Lecturer Series Speaker Biographies|publisher=San Diego Natural History Museum ]Schniedewind is the director of the "Qumran Visualization Project" (QVP), which presents itself as "a tool to better illustrate the daily life of the community described within the [Dead Sea] scrolls." [cite web
title=About the QVP
url=http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/qumran/about.html ] The project's work-product is the Virtual Qumran website and the "" film.QVP's website, created under the auspices of UCLA, states that Schniedewind has participated in excavations and surveys in
Israel , includingTell es-Safi ,Wadi Qumran , Har Tuv, andTel Batash . [cite web
title=About the Staff, Qumran Visualization Project
url=http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/qumran/staff.html ]Bibliography
* "A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture, and Literature" (with Joel Hunt) (Cambridge, 2007), ISBN 9780521879330
* "How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel" (Cambridge, 2004), ISBN 0521829461
* "Society and the Promise to David: A Reception History of 2 Samuel 7:1-17" (Oxford, 1999), ISBN 0195126807
* "The Word of God in Transition: From Prophet to Exegete in the Second Temple Period" (Sheffield, 1995), ISBN 1850755507References
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