Ziony Zevit (born February 13, 1942) is an American scholar of
biblical literature
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The English word ''canon'' comes from the Greek , meaning " rule" or " measuring stick". The us ...
and
Northwest Semitic languages, and a professor at the
American Jewish University
American Jewish University (AJU), formerly the separate institutions University of Judaism and Brandeis-Bardin Institute, is a Jewish institution in Los Angeles, California.
Its largest component is its Whizin Center for Continuing Education in ...
.
Biography
Zevit received his B.A. degree from
University of Southern CA in 1964, and Ph.D. degree from
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
in 1974. He joined the faculty of American Jewish University in 1974.
Zevit was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
in
1994
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.
In an article published in 2001,
Scott F. Gilbert and Zevit argue that the
Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a ...
might be interpreted that
Eve
Eve (; ; ar, حَوَّاء, Ḥawwāʾ; el, Εὕα, Heúa; la, Eva, Heva; Syriac: romanized: ) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the origin story, "Creation myths are symbolic stories describing how the ...
was not made from
Adam
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as " ...
’s
rib, but his
baculum; which would explain why humans don't have one.
Zevit's article published in ''
Biblical Archaeology Review
''Biblical Archaeology Review'' is a magazine appearing every three months and sometimes referred to as ''BAR'' that seeks to connect the academic study of archaeology to a broad general audience seeking to understand the world of the Bible, the ...
'' in 2015 presents the same theory and attracted certain public attention.
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Thesis
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Literature about Ziony Levit
*Greenspahn, Frederick E., and Gary A. Rendsburg, eds. ''Le-maʿan Ziony: Essays in Honor of Ziony Zevit''. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2017.
References
External links
Biography at American Jewish University
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1942 births
American Jewish University faculty
American biblical scholars
University of Southern California alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Living people