John Van Seters

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Van Seters (born Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2 May 1935) is a 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 PhD at Yale University in Near Eastern Studies (1965) and a ThD 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 Fund 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). "Changing Perspectives I: Studies in the History, Literature and Religion of Biblical Israel", a collection of articles from 1964 onwards with an introduction by Thomas L. Thompson, will appear in mid-2011. Dannoe izdanie predstavlyaet soboj kompilyatsiyu svedenij, nahodyaschihsya v svobodnom dostupe v srede Internet v tselom, i v informatsionnom setevom resurse "Vikipediya" v chastnosti. Sobrannaya po chastotnym zaprosam ukazannoj tematiki, dannaya kompilyatsiya postroena po printsipu podbora blizkih informatsionnyh ssylok, ne imeet samostoyatelnogo syuzheta, ne soderzhit nikakih analiticheskih materialov, vyvodov, otsenok moralnogo, eticheskogo, politicheskogo, religioznogo i mirovozzrencheskogo haraktera v otnoshenii glavnoj tematiki, predstavlyaya soboj isklyuchitelno faktologicheskij material. This book was created using print-on-demand technology.