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Samuel A. Meier
Meier.3@OSU.edu Ph.d. Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations, 1987.
OSU Assistant Professor of Hebrew (1986-1992)
OSU Associate Professor of Hebrew (1992-present)
OSU Adjunct Professor of History
(1993-present) Courses Taught at OSU
| Modern Hebrew (Heb 101-102) | Modern Hebrew (Heb 101-102) |
| Women in the Bible (NELC 274) | Prophetic Lit (Heb 373) |
| Septuagint Greek (NELC 603) | Hebrew Poetry (Heb 721) |
| Canon and Community (NELC 673) | Hebrew Lit (Heb 620) |
| Comparative Semitics (NELC 611) | Ugaritic (NELC 630) |
| Exegesis of Jeremiah (Heb 811) | Sacred Texts of the Near East (NELC 271) |
| 1-2 Kings (Heb 621) | Biblical and Post-biblical Literature (Heb 370) |
| Ecclesiastes (Heb 621) | Readings in the Dead Sea Scrolls (NELC 603) |
| Aramaic (Biblical, Targumic), Syriac (NELC 620) | Classical Egyptian (NELC 603) |
| History of the Hebrew Language (Heb 611) | Classical Ethiopic (NELC 693) |
| Epigraphic South Arabian (NELC 693) | History of Ancient Israel (Hist 530.01) |
| Second Commonwealth (Hist 530.02) | Mythologies of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (NELC 370) |
| Isaiah (Heb 621) |
Publications
"Baal's Fight with Yam (KTU 1.2) - A Part of the Baal Myth as Known in KTU 1.1,3-6?" Ugarit Forschungen 18 (1986) 241-54.
"Let Your Garments Always Be White . . .," Xenos Theological Journal 1 (1987) 91-105.
"2 Peter 3:3-7 - An Early Jewish and Christian Response to Eschatological Skepticism," Biblische Zeitschrift 198 (1988) 255-57.
The Messenger in the Ancient Semitic World. Harvard Semitic Monograph 45. Atlanta: Scholars, 1988.
"Job I-II: A Reflection of Genesis I-III," Vetus Testamentum 39 (1989) 183-93.
"House Fungus - Mesopotamia and Israel (Lev 14:33-53)," Revue Biblique 96 (1989) 184-92.
"A Ugaritic Convention in Biblical Dialogue," Ugarit-Forschungen 21 (1989) 277-82.
"George Foot Moore," "G. Ernest Wright," "C.C. Torrey," "James Moffat," "Frederick C. Grant," "Burton Scott Easton," "Willis Judson Beecher," Dictionary of Christianity in America (InterVarsity, 1990).
John T. Greene, The Role of the Messenger and Message in the Ancient Near East, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 109 (1990) 752-53.
"Linguistic Clues on the Date and Canaanite Origin of Genesis 2:23-24," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 53 (1991) 18-24.
"The Sabbath and Purification Cycles," 1-11, The Sabbath in Jewish and Christian Traditions. Ed. Tamara Eskenazi, Daniel Harrington, William Shea; Crossroad, 1991.
"Women and Communication in the Ancient Near East," Journal of the American Oriental Society, 111 (1991) 540-47.
"The King as Warrior in Samuel-Kings," Hebrew Annual Review 13 (1991) 63-76.
"Editorial Appendix," Hebrew Annual Review 13 (1991) 42-44.
Choon Leong Seow, Myth, Drama, and the Politics of David's Dance, in Journal of Biblical Literature 110 (1991) 142-144.
Speaking of Speaking - Marking Direct Discourse in the Hebrew Bible. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 46. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992.
"Beth-Eden," "Calneh," "Canneh," "Cuthah," "Hammurabi," "Rephan," "Sakkuth and Kaiwan," "Shahar" Anchor Bible Dictionary (Doubleday, 1992).
Alviero Niccacci, The Syntax of the Verb in Classical Hebrew Prose and Mats Eskhult, Studies in Verbal Aspect and Narrative Technique in Biblical Hebrew Prose, in Critical Review of Books in Religion 5 (1992) 153-155.
"Angels," "Evil," "Immanuel," "Theophany," The Oxford Companion to the Bible (Oxford University, 1993).
G. J. Botterweck and H. Ringgren, eds., Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. Volume VI: yobel-yatar I, in Hebrew Studies 34 (1993) 103-106.
"The Heading of Psalm 52," Hebrew Annual Review 14 (1994) 143-158.
Ernst Jenni, Die Hebraischen Prapositionen Band I: Die Praposition Beth in Journal of Biblical Literature 113 (1994) 315-316.
"Angel I," "Angel of Yahweh," "Destroyer," "Mediator I," in Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (Brill, 1995).
"Lack, need, want," "Place, Put," "Agree, Consent" in New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology (Zondervan, 1996)
Ulrich Hubner, Spiele und Spielzeug im antiken Palastina in Journal of the American Oriental Society 116 (1996) 534-535.
David A. Dawson, Text-Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew in Journal of Biblical Literature 115 (1996) 723-724.
Mohammed El Faiz, L'Agronomie de la Mesopotamie antique: Analyse du Livre de l'Agriculture nabatenne de Qutama in Agricultural History 71 (1996) 97-98.
"Meekness," "Motives," "Money" Dictionary of Biblical Theology (Baker, 1997)
Yitzhak Avishur, Studies in Hebrew and Ugaritic Psalms in Hebrew Studies 38 (1997) 152-155.
"Dog," "Morning," "East," "West," "North," South," "River" in Dictionary of Biblical Imagery, InterVarsity Press, 1998)
"Orienting the Mappa Mundi in Judaism's Earliest Traditions," Shofar 17 (1998) 19-28.
E. J. Revell, The Designation of the Individual: Expressive Usage in Biblical Narrative in Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (1998) 521-523.
"Job and the Unanswered Question," Prooftexts 19 (1999) 265-276.
"Angel I," "Angel of Yahweh," "Destroyer," "Mediator I," in Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible. Revised Second Edition. (Brill, 1999).
"George Foot Moore," American National Biography (Oxford University; 1999) Vol. 15, 754-755.
Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh: A New Translation. (Penguin, 1999) in London Times Literary Supplement, March 29, 1999.
Cynthia L. Miller, The Representation of Speech in Biblical Hebrew Narrative. A Linguistic Analysis in Jewish Quarterly Review (1999) 230-235.
Michael Rosenbaum, Word-Order Variation in Isaiah 40-55. A Functional Perspective in Critical Review of Books in Religion (1999).
"Diplomacy and International Marriages," in Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 165-173, 259-262.
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