FACULTY
DAVID NOEL FREEDMAN (Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University 1948) ENDOWED CHAIR IN HEBREW BIBLICAL STUDIES, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY: BIBLICAL STUDIES. General Editor, The Anchor Bible; author of Pottery, Poetry, and Prophecy, The Nine Commandments; Divine Commitment and Human Obligation; The Unity of the Hebrew Bible; and Psalm 119: The Exaltation of Torah. dnfreedman@ucsd.edu
RICHARD ELLIOTT FRIEDMAN (Ph.D., Harvard University 1978) KATZIN PROFESSOR OF JEWISH CIVILIZATION, DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE: HEBREW AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE. Author of Who Wrote the Bible?; The Hidden Face of God; The Hidden Book in the Bible; and Commentary on the Torah; The Bible with Sources Revealed. refriedman@ucsd.edu
DAVID GOODBLATT (Ph.D., Brown University 1972) ENDOWED CHAIR IN JUDAIC STUDIES, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY: JEWISH HISTORY. Author of Rabbinic Instruction in Sasanian Babylonia and The Monarchic Principle: Studies in Jewish Self-government in Antiquity. dgoodblatt@ucsd.edu
DEBORAH HERTZ (Ph.D., University of Minnesota 1979) HERMAN WOUK ENDOWED CHAIR IN MODERN JEWISH STUDIES, Department of History: Jewish History, German History, and European Women’s History, Author of Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin and Briefe an eine Freundin: Rahel Varnhagen an Rebecca Friedlaener. dhertz@ucsd.edu
THOMAS E. LEVY (Ph.D., Sheffield University 1981) DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY: ARCHAEOLOGY OF ISRAEL. Editor of The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land. tlevy@weber.ucsd.edu
WILLIAM H. C. PROPP (Ph.D., Harvard University 1985) DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY: BIBLICAL STUDIES, SEMITIC LANGUAGES; Director, Judaic Studies Program. Author of Exodus: The Anchor Bible and Water in the Wilderness. wpropp@ucsd.edu
OTHER UCSD FACULTY OFFERING RELATED INSTRUCTION
ROBERT McC ADAMS, Professor, Department of Anthropology: Near Eastern Archaeology
GUILLERMO ALGAZE, Professor, Department of Anthropology: Near Eastern Archaeology
STEVEN CASSEDY, Professor, Department of Literature: Yiddish and Comparative Literature
ADRIANA DI MARCHI GHERINI, Professor, Department of Literature
ARTHUR DROGE, Professor, Department of Literature: New Testament, Early Christian Literature; Director, Program for the Study of Religion
SANFORD LAKOFF, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science
GERSHON SHAFIR, Professor, Department of Sociology
MELFORD SPIRO, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology
ALANA SHUSTER, Lecturer, Hebrew, Department of History
RANDY LINDA STURMAN, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
VISITING FACULTY
The programs's faculty frequently includes distinguished Visiting Professors for one or more quarters of the academic year. These have included: YORAM BILU, MICHAEL BROWN, ALAN COOPER, RICHARD FREUND, SIR MARTIN GILBERT, NAHUM GLATZER, BARUCH HALPERN, MENAHEM HARAN, AVI HURVITZ, ARTHUR HYMAN, DOV NOY, ELIEZER OREN, SHALOM PAUL, YIGAL SHILOH, GEZA VERMES, MOSHE WEINFELD, ZIONY ZEVIT