Gerald Neil Knoppers

PERSONAL

Address: 317 Weaver Building, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA 16802

Office: (814) 865-8851; Fax: (814) 863-7840

Status: Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Religious

Studies, and Jewish Studies

The Pennsylvania State University

EDUCATION

1988 Ph.D., with distinction, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Dissertation: "What Share Have We in David?": The Division of the Kingdom

in Kings and Chronicles

Director: Frank Moore Cross, Jr.

Readers: Paul Hanson, Theodore Hiebert, James Kugel

1982-86 M.A., with distinction, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

General Exams: Hebrew Bible, Israelite Literature, Religion and History,

Comparative Semitic Grammar, Biblical Theology

1979-82 M.Div., magna cum laude, Old Testament, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

1975-79 B.A., cum laude, Philosophy, Calvin College

LANGUAGES

Ancient: Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Akkadian, Latin, Greek

Modern: French, German, Dutch

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Schools of Oriental Research

Archaeological Institute of America

Association for Jewish Studies

Biblical Archaeological Society

Biblical Colloquium

Canadian Society for Biblical Studies

Catholic Biblical Association

Institute for Biblical Research

International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies

Société d’Études Samaritaines

Society of Biblical Literature

World Union of Jewish Studies

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Steering Committee, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah Group (Society of Biblical Literature), 1992-96

Editorial Board, Journal of Biblical Literature, 1992-98

Manuscript Reviewer:

Macmillan Publishing Company, Penn State Press, Hebrew Annual Review, Wadsworth Publishing Company, West Publishing Company, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Blackwell Publishing Company, Comparative Literature Studies, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Society of Biblical Literature Press, Vetus Testamentum, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, Jewish Quarterly Review, Near Eastern Archaeology, Journal of Biblical Literature, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, Brown Judaic Studies, Basil Blackwell Press, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, Westminster/John Knox Press, Yale University Press.

Executive Board, Institute for Biblical Research, 1992-95

Steering Committee, Achaemenid Period Consultation (Society of Biblical Literature), 1993-97

Advisory Board, Penn State Press Series, Lived Religious Experiences, 1993-2002

Editorial Board, Penn State Press, 1994-1997

Editorial Board, The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 1995-

Head, Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, The Pennsylvania State University,

1996-2006.

Advisory Board, The Diocesan School of Christian Studies, 1997-2001

Co-Chair, Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, 1997

Steering Committee, Hebrew Bible, History, and Archaeology Section (Society of Biblical Literature), 1997-

Chair, Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, 1998-2003

Editor, Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism Book Reviews, Journal of Biblical Literature, 1996-2001

Steering Committee, Literature and History of the Persian Period Group (Society of Biblical Literature). 1997-2002

Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Scott Book Award Committee, 2000-2002

Chair, Biblical Colloquium Membership Committee, 2000-2005

Vice-President, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, 2002-2003

Co-Chair, Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Law Section of Society of Biblical Literature (International), 2002-2008

Steering Committee, Literature and History of the Persian Period Section (Society of Biblical Literature). 2003-

President, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, 2003-2004

Co-Chair, Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, 2004

Editorial Board, Vetus Testamentum, 2005-

Steering Committee, Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, 2005-

Steering Committee, Historiography Seminar, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, 2005-2008.

Editorial Board, Internationaler Exegetischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament (IEKAT) / International

Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament (IECOT), 2005-

Steering Committee, First Esdras Consultation of the Society of Biblical Literature, 2006-

Board of Trustees, W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, American Schools of Oriental

Research, Jerusalem, 2006-

Fellowships Committee, W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, American Schools of Oriental

Research, Jerusalem, 2007-

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Ancient Historiography

Ancient Israelite and Near Eastern History

Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Law

Biblical Theology

The Books of Samuel-Kings, Chronicles, and Ezra-Nehemiah

Comparative Ancient Near Eastern Religions

Early Jewish and Samaritan Relations

Early Judaism

Inner Biblical Exegesis

Northwest Semitic Epigraphy

Syro-Palestinian Archaeology

Textual Criticism

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Religious Studies, and Jewish Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, 2007-

Hist 592: Pro Seminar—Studies in the History of the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Persian Periods

CAMS/RL ST/J ST 597: The Hebrew Bible and Its Early and Modern Interpreters

Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, The Pennsylvania State University,

2002-2006

CAMS 044H: Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Mythology

CAMS 083S: First Year Seminar

JST/RLST 411: Jewish Studies – The Persian and Hellenistic Periods

CAMS 496: Biblical Hebrew

CAMS 596: The Deuteronomistic Historical Work and Israelite History

HIST/CAMS 597: Recent Studies on the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and Early Hellenistic Periods

CAMS/RL ST/J ST 597A: Studies in Biblical Exegesis

CAMS/RL ST/J ST 597B: Biblical Literature in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods

Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, 1994-2002

RL ST 004H: Jewish and Christian Foundations (Honors Section)

RL ST 101: Comparative Ancient Near Eastern Religions

RL ST 411: Jewish Studies

RL ST 561: Topics in Western Religion

RL ST 596: Graduate Independent Studies

CAMS 044H: Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Mythology

CAMS 496: Studies in Classical Hebrew

CAMS 496: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls

CAMS 496H: Studies in Homer and the ancient Semitic world

CAMS 496H: Studies in Zoroastrian Apocalypticism

CAMS 496H: Classical and ancient Mediterranean Burial Practices and Beliefs about the Dead

CAMS 596: Advanced Studies in Classical Hebrew

CAMS 596: Studies in Phoenician Insctiptions

HIST 597: The Aegean and the Ancient Near East (co-professor)

J ST 496: Independent Studies

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, 1988-1994

RL ST 004: Jewish and Christian Foundations

RL ST 120: New Testament

RL ST 101: Early Jewish, Christian & Islamic Interpretations of the Hebrew Scriptures

RL ST 110: Old Testament/Hebrew Bible

RL ST 111: Early Judaism (538 BCE--200 CE)

RL ST 401: Studies in Comparative Religion

RL ST 496: Undergraduate Independent Studies

Instructor in Religious Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, Spring 1987-Spring 1988

RL ST 001: Introduction to World Religions

Instructor in Old Testament, Andover-Newton Theological Seminary, Spring Semester 1986

OT 604/804: Theology of the Old Testament

Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, 1983-86

NEL 104: Near Eastern and Old Testament Wisdom Literature

NEL 100: Introduction to the Bible

LIT. AND ARTS 37: The Bible and Its Interpreters

PUBLICATIONS (Books)

1. Two Nations Under God: The Deuteronomistic History of Solomon and the Dual Monarchies. Vol. 1: The Reign of Solomon and the Rise of Jeroboam (Harvard Semitic Monographs 52; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993). Pp. xv + 302.

2. Two Nations Under God: The Deuteronomistic History of Solomon and the Dual Monarchies. Vol. 2: The Reign of Jeroboam, the Fall of Israel, and the Reign of Josiah (Harvard Semitic Monographs 53; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994). Pp. xvii + 349.

Reviews and Notes: OTA 17 (1994) 445; RSR 20/4 (1994) 328-29; TLZ 120 (1995) 29-30; JBL 114 (1995) 302-4; CBQ 57 (1995) 351-52; SOTS Booklist (1995) 41-42; ExpTim 106 (1995) 158; RSR 22 (1996) 24-26; CBQ 58 (1996); SR 25 (1996) 133; Int 50 (1996) 293-95; JTS (n.s.) 47 (1996) 569-72; ZAW 108 (1996) 473; HTS 52 (1996) 561; JBL 115 (1996) 732-34; CBQ 58 (1996) 117-18; JETS 34 (1996) 471-73; JNSL 23 (1997) 229-32; JNES 57 (1998) 141-43; OTA 20 (1997) 152-53; JAOS 117 (1997) 727; Est Bib 54 (1996) 560-61; BeO 54 (1997) 439-42; TRu 68 (2003) 1-3.

3. (with Gordon McConville), Reconsidering Israel and Judah: The Deuteronomistic History in Recent Thought (Sources for Biblical and Theological Study, vol. 8; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2000). Pp. xxii + 650.

Reviews and Notes: CurTM Feb. (2002) 63; ETL 77 (2001) 197-98; OTA 24 (2001) 369-70; RSR 28 (2002) 67; RBL 9 (2002) 1-6 [http://www.bookreviews.org]; JNSL 28 (2002) 117-18; JSOT 99 (2002) 128; JJS 53 (2002) 157-58; JSS (2002) 322-23; ZAW (2002) 323-24; RBB (2001) 464-65; CBQ 64 (2002) 791-93; JETS 46 (2003) 162-63; TLZ 128 (2003) 496-500.

4. (with M. Patrick Graham and Steven L. McKenzie), The Chronicler as Theologian (JSOTSup. 371; London: T. & T. Clark Continuum 2003). Pp. xvi + 288.

Reviews and Notes: RBL 11 (2004) 1-7 [http://www.bookreviews.org]; JHS 5 (2004-2005) 1-4 [http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/reviews]; VT 57 (2007) 128-29; JNES 66 (2007) 230-31.

5. I Chronicles 1-9 (Anchor Bible 12; New York: Doubleday, 2004). Pp. xxii + 514.

6. I Chronicles 10-29 (Anchor Bible 12A; New York: Doubleday, 2004). Pp xxii + 531.

Winner of the R.B.Y Scott Award for Outstanding Book in Old Testament Studies (2005).

Reviews and Notes: IRBS/IZBG 51 (2004-2005) 115; AUSS 43 (2005) 358-60; RivB 53 (2005) 489-94; JHS (2006) [http://www.jhs.online.org]; RBL 2006: 175-81 [http://www.bookreviews.org]; CBQ (2006); ABR 54 (2006) [http://www.fbs.org.au/reviews]; Bib (2006) 559-62; HeyJ 47 (2006) 451-52; Int 60 (2006) 326-28; JTS 57 (2006) 187-91; Scriptura 91 (2006) 140-42; JSS 52 (2007) 384-85; RelSRev 33/2 (2007) 141; ZAW 119 (2007) 301-302.

7. (with Antoine Hirsch), Egypt, Israel, and the Ancient Mediterranean World: Festschrift Donald B. Redford (Probleme der Ägyptologie 20; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004). Pp viii + 524 (and 68 pages of figures and plates).

Reviews and Notes: RBL 12 (2005) 1-6 [http://www.bookreviews.org]; JAOS 125 (2005)

273-74; VT 56 (2006) 279-80; BASOR 346 (2007) 102-104; JSOT 31/5 (2007) 12-13.

8. (with Oded Lipschits and Rainer Albertz), Judah and the Judeans in the

Fourth Century. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2007. Pp. xii + 423.

9. (with Bernard M. Levinson), The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for

Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance. Winona Lake, IN:

Eisenbrauns, 2007. Pp. xvi + 352.

WORK IN PROGRESS (Books)

1. II Chronicles. Anchor Bible 13; New Haven: Yale University Press.

2. 1 and 2 Chronicles. The Oxford Hebrew Bible. New York: Oxford University Press.

3. Jews and Samaritans: The Origins and History of Their Early Relations.

New York: Oxford University Press.

4. (with Steven L. McKenzie), I and II Kings / Könige I und II. Internationaler

Exegetischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament / International Exegetical

Commentary on the Old Testament. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer GmbH.

WORK IN PROGRESS (Editions)

1. Editor (with Lester Grabbe and Deirdre Fulton), Exile and Restoration Revisited: Essays in Memory of Peter. R. Ackroyd. Library of Second Temple. London/New York: T & T Clark Continuum.

2. Editor (with Ken Ristau), Community Identity in Judean Historiography: Biblical and Comparative Perspectives. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

PUBLICATIONS (Refereed Articles and Book Chapters)

1. "Dynastic Oracle and Secession in 1 Kings 11," Proceedings, Eastern Great Lakes and Midwest Biblical Societies 7 (1987) 159-72.

2. "A Reunited Kingdom in Chronicles?," Proceedings, Eastern Great Lakes and Midwest Biblical Societies 9 (1989) 74-88.

3. "Rehoboam in Chronicles: Villain or Victim?," Journal of Biblical Literature 109 (1990) 423-440.

4. "Unfinished Business," The Reformed Journal 40 (1990) 20-23.

5. "Reform and Regression: the Chronicler's Treatment of Jehoshaphat," Biblica 72 (1991) 500-524.

6. "'The God in His Temple': The Phoenician Text From Pyrgi as a Funerary Inscription," Journal of Near Eastern Studies 51 (1992) 105-120.

7. "There was None Like Him': Incomparability in the Books of Kings," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 54 (1992) 411-31.

8. "Treaty, Tribute List, or Diplomatic Letter?: KTU 3.1 Re-examined," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 289 (1993) 81-94.

9. "'Battling against Yahweh': Israel's War against Judah in 2 Chr 13:2-20," Revue Biblique 100 (1993) 511-32.

10. Articles on Asher, D, Dan, Gad, Israel, Issachar, Jehoshaphat, Levi, Naphtali, Reuben, Showbread, Zebulun for the Oxford Companion to the Bible (ed. B. Metzger and M. Coogan; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

11. "Jehoshaphat's Judiciary and the Scroll of YHWH's Torah," Journal of Biblical Literature 113 (1994) 87-108.

12. "Sex, Religion, and Politics: The Deuteronomist on Intermarriage," Hebrew Annual Review 14 (1994) 121-41.

13. "Dissonance and Disaster in the Legend of Kirta," Journal of the American Oriental Society 114 (1994) 572-82.

14. "Aaron's Calf and Jeroboam's Calves," in Fortunate the Eyes That See: Essays in Celebration of David Noel Freedman on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (ed. A. H. Bartelt et al.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995) 92-104.

15. "Prayer and Propaganda: The Dedication of Solomon’s Temple and the Deuteronomist’s Program. CBQ 57:229-54. Repr. in Reconsidering Israel and Judah: The Deuteronomistic History in Recent Thought (ed. G.N. Knoppers and J.G. McConville; SBTS 8; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2000) 370-96.

16. "Images of David in Early Judaism; David as Repentant Sinner in Chronicles," Biblica 76 (1995) 449-70.

17. "The Deuteronomist and the Deuteronomic Law of the King: A Reexamination of a Relationship," Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 108 (1996) 329-46.

18. "'Yhwh is Not with Israel': Alliances as a Topos in Chronicles," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 58 (1996) 601-626.

19. "Ancient Near Eastern Royal Grants and the Davidic Covenant: A Parallel?" Journal of the American Oriental Society 116 (1996) 670-97.

20. "The Vanishing Solomon? The Disappearance of the United Monarchy in Recent Histories of Ancient Israel," Journal of Biblical Literature 116 (1997) 19-44.

21. "Historiography and History: The Royal Reforms," in The Chronicler as Historian (ed. M. P. Graham, S. L. McKenzie, and K. Hoglund; JSOT Sup. 238; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press (1997) 178-203. Repr. In Israel’s Past in Present Research (ed. V. Philips Long, SBTS 7; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1999) 557-78.

22. "Solomon's Fall and Deuteronomy," in The Age of Solomon: Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennium (ed L. Handy; Leiden: Brill 1997) 392-410.

23. "David's Relation to Moses: The Context, Content, and Conditions of the Davidic Promises," in King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East: Papers from the Oxford Old Testament Seminar, ed. J. Day (JSOT Sup. 270; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998) 91-118.

24. "Of Kings, Prophets, and Priests: Public Leadership in Chronicles," The Bible Today 36 (1998) 214-220.

25. "Hierodules, Priests, or Janitors? The Levites in Chronicles and the History of the Israelite Priesthood," Journal of Biblical Literature 118 (1999) 49-72.

26. "Jerusalem at War in Chronicles," in Zion, City of Our God ed. R. S. Hess and G. J. Wenham: (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999) 57-76.

27. "Developments and Detours: The Historical Study of the Monarchy," in The Current State of Old Testament Scholarship: A Survey of Contemporary Approaches (ed. D. W. Baker and B. T. Arnold; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999) 207-35.

28. New Dictionary of the Bible, ed. D. N. Freedman and A. C. Myers and (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000)

29. “The Chronicler’s History" (pp. 241-242)

30. “Chronicles” (pp. 242-244)

31. “The Deuteronomistic History" (pp. 341-342)

32. "Solomon" (pp. 1236-1238)

33. "Is There a Future for the Deuteronomistic History?" in The Future of the Deuteronomistic History, ed. Thomas Römer (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 147; Leuven: Peeters, 2000) 119-34.

34. "Treasures Won and Lost: Royal (Mis)appropriations in Kings and Chronicles," in The Chronicler as Author, ed. M. P. Graham and S. L. McKenzie (JSOT Sup. 263; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999) 181-208.

35. "Introduction," in Reconsidering Israel and Judah: The Deuteronomistic History in Recent Thought, ed. G. N. Knoppers and J. G. McConville. Sources for Biblical and Theological Study, vol. 8 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2000) 1-18.

36. "The Preferential Status of the Eldest Son Revoked?" in Rethinking the Foundations (the John Van Seters Festschrift, ed. T. Römer, and S. L. McKenzie (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 294; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2000) 115-26.

37. “Introduction” to and Notes on 1 and 2 Chronicles for The New Oxford Annotated Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) 576-670.

38. “Sources, Revisions, and Editions: The Lists of Jerusalem’s Residents in MT and LXX Nehemiah 11 and I Chronicles 9,” Textus 20 (2000) 141-68.

39. “Rethinking the Relationship between Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History: The Case of Kings,” The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 63 (2001) 393-415.

40. “The Davidic Genealogy in Chronicles: Some Contextual Considerations from the Ancient Mediterranean World,” Transeuphratène 22 (2001) 35-50.