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Director of Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East Program
Latest News
- News from MELC Students (April 26, 2024)
- Announcing a New Book by Prof. Amina Moujtahid (April 12, 2024)
- MELC’s Inaugural Walter G. Andrews Memorial Lecture Featuring Dr. Michael Pifer (January 3, 2023)
- NELC Major Mira Weimer on the Prophet Jonah across Abrahamic Texts (June 3, 2019)
- Farhat J. Ziadeh Lecture 2019: Jane McAuliffe on the Quran in America (April 21, 2019)
Related Research
- Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making, eds. Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff (SUNY Press, 2020).
- “The Qur’an,” (Terri DeYoung co-authored with Ali Atef Mian, University of Florida) for The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Literature, ed. Ken Seigneurie January 15, 2020 (forthcoming)
- What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans), edited by Naomi B. Sokoloff and Nancy E. Berg (University of Washington Press, 2018) - Winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Anthologies and Collections.
- “Muhammad as Ethical Role Model,” Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God (2 volumes). Ed Coeli Fitzpatrick. & Adam Walker (Santa Barbara: ABC Clio Press, 2014): 169-173.
- Williams, Michael A. "Introduction to "Gnosticism."Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds." Church History & Religious Culture 94, no. 1 (March 2014): 77-80.
- Terri DeYoung (trans.) and Issa J. Boullata (trans.), IBN 'ABD RABBIH: THE UNIQUE NECKLACE (AL-'IQD AL-FARID), Vol. III. Garnet Publishing, 2011, 317 pages.
- Williams, Michael A. "The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity." Journal Of Early Christian Studies 19, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 479-480.
- Naomi Sokoloff, The Boundaries of Jewish Identity, Co-edited with Susan Glenn (University of Washington Press, 2010).
- Williams, Michael A. "The Secret Revelation of John." Journal Of The American Academy Of Religion 76, no. 1 (March 2008): 243-246.
- Williams, Michael A. "Why This New Race? Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity." Journal Of Religion 87, no. 2 (April 2007): 271-272.