Susan Ackerman (born September 24, 1958) is an American

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
'' Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...

, where she has taught since 1990. Before coming to Dartmouth she taught at the

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ...

and

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in South Carolina. She specializes in the religion of

ancient Israel The history of ancient Israel and Judah begins in the Southern Levant during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. "Israel" as a people or tribal confederation (see Israelites) appears for the first time in the Merneptah Stele, an inscri ...

and the religions of Israel's neighbors (

Mesopotamia Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the ...

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...

, and

Canaan Canaan (; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – ; he, כְּנַעַן – , in pausa – ; grc-bib, Χανααν – ;The current scholarly edition of the Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta : id est Vetus T ...

), especially women's religious history. Ackerman studied at Dartmouth College (A.B., 1980) and

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(M.T.S., 1980; Ph.D. 1987). Her dissertation was entitled “Syncretism in Israel as Reflected in Sixth-Century Prophetic Texts.” She has been president of the American Schools of Oriental Research since 2014.

Bibliography

* ''When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David'' (Columbia University Press, 2005). * ''Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel'' (Doubleday, 1998). * ''Under Every Green Tree: Popular Religion in Sixth-Century Judah'' (Scholars Press, 1992).

References

1958 births Living people American biblical scholars Old Testament scholars Female biblical scholars Dartmouth College alumni Dartmouth College faculty Harvard Divinity School alumni University of Arizona faculty Winthrop University faculty Place of birth missing (living people) {{reli-studies-bio-stub