Professor Eric M. Meyers

Prof. Eric M. Meyers
660-3517 - emc@duke.edu
230C Gray Bldg.

ERIC M. MEYERS (1969) received his A.B. from Dartmouth College where he majored in Religion. He earned an M.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University where he studied Second Temple Judaism and Dead Sea Scrolls, Bible, and modern Jewish thought. He earned his Ph.D. in 1969 from Harvard University specializing in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, archaeology of the ancient Near East, and Jewish History of the Greco-Roman period. He has authored or co-authored 9 books, edited many others, and has published widely in the fields of Hebrew Bible, biblical archaeology, and Second Temple Judaism. Among his publications in Hebrew Bible are two Anchor Bible commentaries with Carol L. Meyers, Haggai-Zechariah 1-8 (1987) and Zechariah 9-14 (1993) . He served as editor in chief of the five-volume work published by Oxford University Press, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (1997) and is co-author of the Cambridge Companion to the Bible by Cambridge University Press, 1997, fully revised edition published in 2007. He is currently president of the American Schools of Oriental Research, having previously served as their president from 1990-1997. Dr. Meyers served as Director of the Graduate Program in Religion, which is an inter-institutional MA and doctoral program with the Divinity School, from 2001-2006. He has directed or co-directed digs in Israel and Italy for more than thirty years. Dr. Meyers is Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Judaic Studies and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies.


Download or Print Current Course Syllabi (for faster downloads, right-click and select 'save target as') Course materials are available on Blackboard.	Prof. Eric M. Meyers 660-3517 - emc@duke.edu 230C Gray Bldg. ERIC M. MEYERS (1969) received his A.B. from Dartmouth College where he majored in Religion. He earned an M.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University where he studied Second Temple Judaism and Dead Sea Scrolls, Bible, and modern Jewish thought. He earned his Ph.D. in 1969 from Harvard University specializing in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, archaeology of the ancient Near East, and Jewish History of the Greco-Roman period. He has authored or co-authored 9 books, edited many others, and has published widely in the fields of Hebrew Bible, biblical archaeology, and Second Temple Judaism. Among his publications in Hebrew Bible are two Anchor Bible commentaries with Carol L. Meyers, Haggai-Zechariah 1-8 (1987) and Zechariah 9-14 (1993) . He served as editor in chief of the five-volume work published by Oxford University Press, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (1997) and is co-author of the Cambridge Companion to the Bible by Cambridge University Press, 1997, fully revised edition published in 2007. He is currently president of the American Schools of Oriental Research, having previously served as their president from 1990-1997. Dr. Meyers served as Director of the Graduate Program in Religion, which is an inter-institutional MA and doctoral program with the Divinity School, from 2001-2006. He has directed or co-directed digs in Israel and Italy for more than thirty years. Dr. Meyers is Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Judaic Studies and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies.