Mark S. Smith
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Mark Stratton John Matthew Smith (born December 6, 1956) is an American professor and prominent Biblical scholar who currently holds the Skirball Chair of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.
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[edit] Early life
Born in Paris to art historian Donald Eugene Smith and Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Reichert, Smith grew up in Washington, D.C. with his six sisters and two brothers.
[edit] Early career
Smith began his university studies at The Johns Hopkins University receiving his B.A. in English, and received his Masters in theology at Catholic University of America
[edit] Later career
Following his time in Washington, Smith attended Harvard Divinity School and Yale University. It was then he began to focus on the history of Israelite and ancient Near Eastern religion. He also began to explore the representation of deities and divinity in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East from the Bronze Age to the Greco-Roman period.
Though Smith's contributions to discourse of the narrative literature of the Hebrew Bible and West Semitic texts as well as Ugaritic literature and religion are held in high regard,[1][2]
[edit] Fellowships and 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
[edit] Additional positions
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
[edit] 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).
- Untold Stories: The Bible and Ugaritic Studies in the Twentieth Century (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2001).
- The Memoirs of God (Minneapolis, MN: Fotress, 2004).
- The Rituals and Myths of the Goodly Gods (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006).
- God in Translation: Deities in Cross-cultural Discourse in the Biblical World (Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, in press).
