Areas of Research/Interest: History of Israelite and ancient Near Eastern religion; The representation of deities and divinity in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East from the Bronze Age to the Greco-Roman period; Narrative literature of the Hebrew Bible and West Semitic texts; Ugaritic literature and religion External Affiliations: Member, Colloquium for Biblical Research Board of Consultants, MELAMMU: The Intellectual Heritage of Assyria and Babylonia in East and West Editor, Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series Editorial Board, Hebrew Studies Fellowships/Honors: Fellow, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1998; Faculty Merit Award for Research, Saint Joseph's University, 1995; Morse Fellow, Yale University, 1993; Dorot Dead Sea Scrolls Fellow (summer), W. F. Albright Institute of Archeological Research, 1990; Mellon Faculty Fellowship Leave (spring term), Yale University 1989; Recipient of the Mitchell Dahood Memorial Prize 1988, 1990; Post-doctoral fellow W. F. Albright Institute of Archeological Research, 1988; Annual Professor, W. F. Albright Institute of Archeological Research, 1987; Membership in and papers delivered at the Catholic Biblical Association, the Old Testament Colloquium and the Society of Biblical Literature, 1983-present; Mary Cady Tew prize for best first-year graduate student, Yale University, 1982
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