Research Fields: Classical and Modern Hebrew Literature; History of Biblical Interpretation, Jewish and Christian; Intersection of contemporary literary theory and hermeneutics with ancient and medieval exegesis; ancient and medieval Judaism; History of...
Malika Zeghal is the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. She is also a member of the Committee on the Study of Religion and a...
Before coming to teach at Harvard (in 1981), Professor Steinkeller pursued research at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. His scholarly work deals broadly with the history, culture, and languages of early Mesopotamia (3000-1500 BCE), its...
A Norwegian with an early interest for languages, I learned several of them before studying French, Latin, Sanskrit, and comparative linguistics at the University of Oslo in the sixties. This in due course led me to Old Iranian studies, principally...
Peter Der Manuelian is the Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology and holds a joint appointment in the Anthropology Department and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He is also director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East...
Since 1992 Professor Machinist has been the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and a member of the faculty of the Harvard Divinity School. He received his A.B. from...
Harris has been on the Faculty since 1989. He specializes in Modern Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History, teaching courses on modern Jewish religion, law, thought, and culture, primarily in Europe. He also teaches two Gen Ed courses in the Ethics and...
William Granara is research professor of the practice of Arabic language and literature at Harvard University in the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Comparative Literature. He is also the founding director of Harvard Summer...
William A. Graham was a teaching faculty member of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1973-2018 and a member of the Faculty of Divinity 2002-2018. He served as Dean of Harvard Divinity School from 2002 to 2012, after which he returned to fulltime...
