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William Henry Covici Propp

Vita

Publications

Current Research

Courses

 

Vita

Specialties: Biblical Studies, Comparative Semitic Philology, Assyriology, Northwest Semitic Epigraphy, Historical Linguistics, Judaic Studies

Publications

  • Water in the Wilderness: A Biblical Motif and Its Mythological Background. Harvard Semitic Monographs, 1987.
  • Editor with B. Halpern and D.N. Freedman, The Hebrew Bible and Its Interpreters. Eisenbrauns, 1990.
  • Editor, Studies in Hebrew and Aramaic Orthography by F.I. Andersen, A.D. Forbes, and D.N. Freedman. Eisenbrauns, 1992.
  • Exodus 1-18.. Anchor Bible. Doubleday, 1998.
  • Editor with R.E. Friedman, Le-David Maskil: A Birthday Tribute to David Noel Freedman. Eisenbrauns, 2004.
  • Exodus 19-40. Anchor Bible. Doubleday, 2006.

Current Research

Courses

  • HINE 106. The Bible and the Near East - the Writings.
  • HINE 111. Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible.
  • HINE 112a. Great Stories from the Hebrew Bible.
  • HINE 112b. Great Poems from the Hebrew Bible.
  • HINE 113. Ancient Near Eastern Mythology.
  • Judaic Studies 100. Introduction to Hebrew Bible.