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Mark S. Smith

Skirball Professor of Bible; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Ph.D., 1985, (Northwest Semitics and Hebrew Scripture), Yale University; M. Phil., 1983, M.A. 1982. M.T.S., 1980, (Old Testament), Harvard Divinity School; M.A., 1979, the Catholic University of America; B.A., 1975, The Johns Hopkins University.

Office Address: Heyman Hall 51 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012-1075
Phone: 212-998-8975
Fax: 212-995-4178
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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

Select Publications:
Psalms: The Divine Journey (New York/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1987).

The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel (San Francisco/New York: Harper & Row, 1990).

The Laments of Jeremiah and Their Context: A Literarv and Redactional Study of Jeremiah 11-20 (Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series, vol. 42; Atlanta, GA: Scholars, 1990).

The Origins and Development of the Waw-Consecutive: Northwest Semitic Evidence from Ugarit to Qumran(Harvard Semitic Studies Series, vol. 39; Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1991).

The Ugaritic Baal Cycle: Volume 1. Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary of KTU 1.1-1.2 (Vetus Testamentum Supplements series, vol. 55; Leiden: Brill, 1994).

The Pilgrimage Pattern in Exodus, with contributions by Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith (Journal for the Society of Old Testament Supplement Series, vol. 239; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997).

The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, in press).

Untold Stories: The Bible and Ugaritic Studies in the Twentieth Century (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2001, in press).