Baruch Halpern

Baruch Halpern is the Chaiken Family Chair in Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He has been a leader of the archaeological digs at Tel Megiddo since 1992.^[1] As an undergraduate at Harvard in 1972, he wrote a political analysis of the Bible, which subsequently influenced research into its authorship. ^[2]

Major publications include:

David's Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King (2003)
The Rise of Ancient Israel: Symposium at the Smithsonian Institution (1991, with Hershel Shanks, William Dever, and P. Kyle McCarter
The Emergence of Israel in Canaan (1983)
The Constitution of the Monarchy in Israel (1981)
The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History (1980)

References

^ Ussishkin, David. "Tel Megiddo Centennial – Year 2002 Season". Israel Antiquities Authority. http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=36&subj_id=70. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
^ pg. 43, Friedman, Richard Elliott. Who Wrote the Bible? (2nd edition, 1997) HarperSanFrancisco. ISBN 0-06-063036-3

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