John Van Seters (born May 2, 1935 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian scholar of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Ancient Near East. Currently University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, he was formerly James A. Gray Professor of Biblical Literature at UNC. He took his Ph.D. at Yale University in Near Eastern Studies (1965) and a Th.D. h.c. from the University of Lausanne (1999). His honours and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH fellowship, an ACLS Fellowship, and research fellowships at Oxford, Cambridge, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and National Research Foundation of South Africa. His many publications include The Hyksos: A New Investigation (1966); Abraham in History and Tradition (1975); In Search of History (1983, for which he won the James H. Breasted Prize and the American Academy of Religion book award); The Edited Bible (2006); and The Biblical Saga of King David (2009).[1]
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JohnVanSeters (born May 2, 1935 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian scholar of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Ancient Near East. Currently...
This article presents information about the JohnVanSeters book; for general information about the topic, see Abraham: Historicity and origins and The...
1093/jts/flm136. VanSeters, John (2013). The Yahwist: A Historian of Israelite Origins. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. ISBN 978-1-575-06286-0. VanSeters, John (2015)...
Publishing Co. p. 49. VanSeters, John, (1999). The Pentateuch: A Social-Science Commentary, Sheffield Academic Press, p. 78. VanSeters, John, (1999). The Pentateuch:...
Qedarites who occupied the eastern Delta from the 7th century BCE, but JohnVanSeters thinks this unlikely. Pithom Raamses On In 1885, Édouard Naville identified...
This was triggered in large part by the influential publications of JohnVanSeters, Hans Heinrich Schmid, and Rolf Rendtorff in the mid-1970s, who argued...
Narratives by Thomas L. Thompson and Abraham in History and Tradition by JohnvanSeters. Thompson, a literary scholar, argued on the lack of compelling evidence...
books is considered misleading by 21st-century Christian bible scholar JohnVanSeters, because the Pentateuch "consists of about one half law and the other...
Decalogue. (The following "literary" outline of Deuteronomy is from JohnVanSeters; it can be contrasted with Alexander Rofé's "covenantal" analysis in...
"Amar", which was also used by Sumerian King, Amar-Sin, and "a-p-l". JohnVanSeters, in Abraham in History and Tradition, rejected the historical existence...
and then attacked an entire tribe of Israelites.[citation needed] JohnVanSeters argues that, according to traditional interpretation, a show of hands...
Longman 2005, p. 49. VanSeters 1998, p. 14. VanSeters 2004, pp. 30–86. Gmirkin 2006, pp. 240–241. Ska 2006, pp. 169, 217–218. VanSeters 2004, pp. 113–114...
material. The "supplementary" approach is exemplified in the work of JohnVanSeters, who places the composition of J (which he, unlike the "fragmentists"...
other hand the Yahwist source has been dated by some scholars, notably JohnVanSeters, to the exilic pre-Persian period (the 6th century BCE) precisely because...
Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the JohnVanSeters Distinguished Professor of Psychology. He is a Fellow of both the American...
later accepted by William F. Albright, and Kenneth Kitchen. Although JohnvanSeters and Neil Asher Silberman argue that Tell El Retaba was unoccupied during...
other hand the Yahwist source has been dated by some scholars, notably JohnVanSeters, to the exilic pre-Persian period (the 6th century BCE) precisely because...
repetitions, different narrative styles, and different names for God. JohnVanSeters notes that within the first four books, the Tetrateuch - that is, omitting...
Thompson's The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (1974), and JohnVanSeters' Abraham in History and Tradition (1975). Thompson, a literary scholar...
1976) appeared at about the same time as two other important works, JohnVanSeters' Abraham in History and Tradition (1975), and Rolf Rendtorff's "Das...
Hilhorst 1991, pp. 153. VanSeters 2010, pp. 633. "The John William Wevers Prize in Septuagint Studies". 2020-05-15. "John William Wevers Institute for...
Narratives by Thomas L. Thompson and Abraham in History and Tradition by JohnVanSeters. Thompson, a literary scholar, argued on the lack of compelling evidence...
ISBN 9781575060033. VanSeters, John (2015) [1999]. The Pentateuch: A Social-Science Commentary. Bloomsbury T&T Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-65880-7. VanSeters, John (1998)...
an introduction to critical issues. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664256524. VanSeters, John (2004). The Pentateuch: a social-science commentary...