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Tzvi Abusch

Visiting Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Religions at the Divinity School
(In residence Spring Quarter 2008-2009)

M.A. (Brandeis University)
Ph.D. (Harvard University)

Tzvi Abusch is the Rose B. and Joseph Cohen Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Religion at Brandeis University. He has taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has held a number of awards and fellowships. Most recently, he was a member of the Institutes for Advanced Study in Princeton (2003-4) and in Jerusalem (2006).

Professor Abusch's primary fields of research and publications are Mesopotamian religion, magic, literature, and thought as well as Hebrew Bible and biblical-Babylonian interconnections. A number of his studies on magic and mythology are to be found in his Mesopotamian Witchcraft: Towards a History and Understanding of Babylonian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature (Leiden: Brill/Styx, 2002) and The Epic of Gilgamesh: Male and Female Encounters and other Issues (Winona Lake, Indiana, Eisenbrauns [in press]).