About

Bruce E Zuckerman
Myron and Marian Casden Director and Professor of Religion and Linguistics

Contact Information
Office: ACB 130
Phone: (213) 740-0271
E-mail: bzuckerm@usc.edu

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Curriculum Vitae
Faculty Profile on Departmental Website
 

Biographical Sketch
Bruce E. Zuckerman is a Professor in the School of Religion at the University of Southern California, where he teaches courses in the Hebrew Bible, the Bible in Western Literature, the Ancient Near East, and Archaeology. He received his Ph.D. in ancient Near Eastern Languages from Yale University and is a specialist in Northwest Semitic languages and biblical studies. Besides his teaching responsibilities, he directs the USC Archaeological Research Collection and both the West Semitic Research and InscriptiFact Projects. He is also the Myron and Marian Casden Director of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life. He specializes in photographing ancient texts including numerous projects involving the Dead Sea Scrolls. His book, Job the Silent: A Study in Biblical Counterpoint, was published in 1991 by Oxford University Press and The Leningrad Codex; A Facsimile Edition, for which he and his brother Kenneth did the principal photography, was published in 1998. He is also co-author with Zev Garber of Double Takes; Thinking and Rethinking Issues of Modern Judaism in Ancient Contexts, published in 2004. He is currently leading an effort to disseminate electronic images of ancient texts through the West Semitic Research and InscriptiFact Projects (www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp; www.inscriptifact.com). In 2006 he was awarded the Albert S. Raubenheimer Award in the Humanities for “outstanding performance in the three areas of teaching, scholoarship and service within the University.” This is the highest academic honor awarded by the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences.
 

Education
B.A. , Princeton University
Ph.D. Ancient Near Eastern Languages, Yale University
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Zuckerman studies the ancient Near East, Northwest Semitic languages and literatures, and the archaeology of the Near East and the Greco-Roman world. He also directs the West Semitic Research Project and the USC Archaeological Research Collection, and is codirector of the InscriptiFact Project. He is an expert in reproducing ancient biblical and Near Eastern documents, including Dead Sea Scrolls. Zuckerman has particular interest in helping the university integrate the latest technological advances in multimedia more seamlessly into the classroom environment.
 

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
InscriptiFact Project,http://www.inscriptifact.com
USC West Semitic Reserach Project,http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/index.html
 

Publications

Book
Zuckerman, B. E. (1991). Job the Silent. Oxford University Press.
 

Journal Article
Zuckerman, B. E. (2006). Shading the Difference: A Perspective on Epigraphic Perspectives of the Kheleifeh Jar Stamp Impression. No Journal Defined. pp. p.233-252.
Zuckerman, B. E., Lundberg, M. J., Tappy, R. E., McCarter, P. (2006). An Abecedary of the Mid-Tenth Century B. C. E. from the Judaean Shephelah. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research/ASOR. Vol. 344, pp. 4-46.
Zuckerman, B. E. (2005). InscriptiFact: A Virtual Archive of Ancient Inscriptions from the Near East. No Journal Defined. Vol. 5 (no. 3 pp. 153-166)
Zuckerman, B. E. (2005). InscriptiFact, A Tool for Study of Ancient Near Eastern Inscriptions; Impact on Scholarly Practice. No Journal Defined. pp. p.n/a.
Zuckerman, B. E. (2005). Where are the Files? Where is the Smoke? The Real and Super-Real in Mel Gibson's The Passion. No Journal Defined. pp. p.31-38.
 

Monograph
Zuckerman, B. E. (2005). Two Early Alphabetic Inscreptions form the Wadi el-Hol (Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 59, Part II, 2005. Two Early Alphabetic Inscreptions form the Wadi el-Hol (Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 59, Part II, 2005.
 

Honors and Awards
Endowed Casden Directorship, Myron and Marian Casden Director, 8/16/2005-8/15/2008  
 
 
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