John Van Seters
John Van Seters (born May 2, 1935 in
Hamilton,
Ontario) is a Canadian scholar of the
Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the
Ancient Near East. Currently University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the
University of North Carolina, he was formerly James A. Gray Professor of Biblical Literature at UNC. He took his Ph.D. at
Yale University in Near Eastern Studies (1965) and a Th.D.
h.c. from the
University of Lausanne (1999). His honours and awards include a
Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH fellowship, an
ACLS Fellowship, and research fellowships at
Oxford,
Cambridge,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and
National Research Foundation of South Africa. His many publications include ''
The Hyksos: A New Investigation'' (1966);
''Abraham in History and Tradition'' (1975); ''In Search of History'' (1983, for which he won the James H. Breasted Prize and the
American Academy of Religion book award); ''The Edited Bible'' (2006); and ''The Biblical Saga of King David'' (2009).
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