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Shalom Holtz

Shalom
E.
Holtz

Professor of Bible

sholtz@yu.edu
646-592-4859

Wilf campus - 544 Belfer Hall
 

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
AB, Harvard University, 1999

Shalom E. Holtz is an Assyriologist and biblical scholar interested in Mesopotamian literature and law and their relationships to biblical and post-biblical writings. His most recent book is Praying Legally (Brown Judaic Studies, 2019), which examines connections between prayer and the courtroom in the biblical world.  It was supported by grants from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and by the Chelst, Schreiber, and Zwas YC Book Fund. He is the editor of the Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society.  In his current research, he is studying records of communities of Judean exiles in Persian-period Babylonia and Egypt as context for biblical prophecies..

Find Shalom Holtz’s publications on YAIR: Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository

sholtz@yu.edu
646-592-4859

Wilf campus - 544 Belfer Hall
 

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