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BRUCE EDWARD ZUCKERMAN

Home address:

12 Empty Saddle RoadRolling Hills Estates, CA 90274

Home phone: (310) 541-4573

Fax: (310) 541-2361

Academic address:

School of Religion 339 Ahmanson Center Building (West Tower)University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity ParkLos Angeles, CA 90089-0355USA

USC office phone (and voice mail): (213) 740-0271 Archaeology Laboratory phone (335 Ahmanson Center Building): (213) 740-0266

Internet address: [email protected]

Websites: wsrp.usc.edu (West Semitic Research Project)arclab.usc.edu (Archaeological Research Center)www.inscriptifact.com/ (InscriptiFact Project)www.maarav.com (Maarav)

Current Academic and Administrative Positions:

Professor, School of Religion; University of Southern California (2004- ); teaching courses in Hebrew Bible; Ancient Near Eastern literature, history and religion; Bible in Western Literature, Syro-Palestinian archaeology.

Director, University of Southern California Archaeological Research Center (1981- ) The collection comprises several thousand ancient artifacts from Israel, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt, Cyprus, the Greco-Roman world and Gandhara and is employed by students (graduate and undergraduate) and researchers both in and outside USC.

Director, West Semitic Research Project (1983- ) For more detailed information, see below.

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Director, InscriptiFact Project (1998- ) InscriptiFact is a high resolution distributed image database of ancient Near Eastern texts with special concentration in Northwest Semitic and early Jewish/Christian texts. InscriptiFact I is currently accessed on the Internet as a platform independent Java application with 100,000 high resolution images from 42 repositories and is in active use by scholars in 50 countries. The current version of InscriptiFact is 10.0.0.

Senior Editor, Maarav, A Journal for the Study of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures (Managing editor, 1978-1999; Senior editor 1999- ). The journal’s focus is the philological study of ancient West Semitic texts; thus far the journal has been published through volume 20 (2013; published 2016).

Education

Beverly Hills High School; Beverly Hills, CA; 1961-1963.

Deerfield Academy; Deerfield, MA; 1963-1965.

Princeton University; Princeton, NJ; 1965-1969: BA with honors in English. Senior thesis: Perspectives on the Book of Job (an analysis of the Book of Job and how it

was interpreted by John Milton in Paradise Regained and Archibald MacLeish in JB).Extra-curricular: Daily Princetonian; assistant editor, 1965-1966; associate editor, 1966-1968; editor in charge of special projects, 1968-1969.

Yale University; New Haven, CT; special student, department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, 1969-1970; doctoral program in same department, 1970-1980; qualifying examinations passed, fall, 1974; Ph.D. awarded, May, 1980. Concentration: Northwest Semitic philology and epigraphy; ancient Aramaic, Ugaritic, Hebrew and Canaanite languages.

Dissertation: The Process of Translation in the Targum of Job from Qumran Cave 11 (11QtgJob). Advisors: Marvin H. Pope, Franz Rosenthal

Supplemental Course Work

Columbia University; New York, NY; department of Near Eastern Languages; course on Canaanite languages with Moshe Held; summer, 1972; course in Northwest Semitic inscriptions with H. L. Ginsberg; course on Ugaritic with David Marcus; 1972-1973.

Fordham University; Bronx, NY; department of Religious Studies; course in Aramaic studies with J. A. Fitzmyer; 1972-1973.

Harvard University; Cambridge, MA; department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; special student during the academic year; 1975-1976. Courses in Bible, Northwest Semitic

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Philology and Epigraphy with F. M. Cross, comparative Semitics, Ethiopic with T. O. Lambdin, Old Babylonian with W. Moran.

Teaching and other positions outside of current position

Yale UniversityTeaching Assistant under Judah Goldin in his undergraduate survey course on the Old Testament (Religious Studies Department); 1972-1973.

Instructor in Graduate course on Biblical Aramaic under the supervision of Marvin Pope (Near Eastern Languages Department); 1973-1974.

Instructor for a seminar on the Book of Job as part of an undergraduate course on Job taught by Marvin Pope (Religious Studies Department); 1973-1974.

Harvard UniversitySpecial student; research assistant (to F. M. Cross) and Associate of the Harvard Semitic Museum (1977-1980)

University of Southern California

Myron and Marian Casden Director of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life (2005-2015). Editor, of the Casden Institute’s Annual Review vols. 5-12.

Associate Professor, School of Religion; University of Southern California (1988-2004)

Assistant Professor, School of Religion; University of Southern California (1981-1988).

University of California, Los AngelesDistinguished Visiting Scholar teaching a course on Northwest Semitic Epigraphy for Stanislaw Segert, on leave for the semester (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures); 1983.

Hebrew Union College, Los AngelesVisiting Professor teaching the third year Bible course, spring, 1989.

Claremont Graduate SchoolAdjunct Associate Professor teaching Aramaic; fall, 1990; Dead Sea Scroll Epigraphy, spring, 1991, Ugaritic, fall 1991; Syriac, fall, 1994.

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Awards, Honors

Mitchell Dahood Memorial Prize; awarded jointly with Robert Ratner for the best paper in Ugaritic studies under the year’s topic: “The Impact of Ugaritic on Old Testament Studies.” The prize was awarded for our paper “‘A Kid in Milk’ . . .” (cf. above under publications). The award consisted of a $1,000 prize plus the opportunity to read the paper at a special meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Atlanta; November, 1986.

Mortar Board Faculty Teaching Award, Torch and Tassel chapter at the University of Southern California. Student-voted award in honor of “faculty members who are not only outstanding teachers, but to those who go out of their way and take an extra step to educate others.” Awarded, October 26, 1993.

General Education Teaching Award (1997-1998) (supplemental stipend of $3,000). Awarded, November, 1998.

1999 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Award, “Special Citation” awarded to The Leningrad Codex: A Facsimile Edition. Awarded, December, 1999.

Special Citation from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for “Commitment to Minority Higher Education Achievement-1988-2000.” Awarded, Spring, 2000.

Fellow, Center for Excellence in Teaching, University of Southern California (2000- 2003); Distinguished Fellow (2003- ) Fellow, USC Annenberg Center for Communications Institute for Multimedia Literacy(2001-2008)

2003 Outstanding Service Award of the Association of Trojan Leagues, recognizing excellence in the fields of teaching, research and service to the student community and alumni. Awarded, May 22, 2003.

Citation from the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program “for Exemplary Leadership, Dedication and Service.” Awarded March 17, 2004

“Search for New Heroes” Award by Computerworld in the education category for the InscriptiFact Image Database, received on April 4, 2004.

Albert S. Raubenheimer Award in the Humanities, the highest academic honor awarded by the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences. Awarded for “outstanding performance in the three areas of teaching, scholarship and service within the University.” Awarded, December, 2006.

Innovations in Mentoring Award, USC Mellon Mentoring Program. Awarded Spring, 2007

Elected to be a National Fellow of the Explorers Club, February, 2009.

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Special Session of the “Paleographical Studies in the Ancient Near East” section of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature: “In Honor of Bruce Zuckerman”; November 22, 2010.

Puzzling Out the Past; Studies in Northwest Semitic Literatures in Honor of Bruce Zuckerman (M. Lundberg, S. Fine, W. Pitard, eds.; Leiden: Brill 2012; 334 pp.

The USC Dornsife Dean’s Award for Distinguished Service “in appreciation of your service to the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences as the Myron and Marian Director of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, July 1, 2005 through August 15, 2015. Awarded, August, 2015.

Featured Project on the IMLS website: “Back to the Future: Redefining Civilization with New Imaging TechnologYy https://www.imls.gov/news-events/project-profiles/back-future-redefining-civilization-new-imaging-technology (Sept. 2015).

Publications:

Books:

Job the Silent; A Study in Historical Counterpoint (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) 294 pp. Republished (slightly revised) in paperback edition, 1998.

Facsimile Edition of the Leningrad Codex (A. Beck, D. N. Freedman, M. J. Lundberg, J. A. Sanders, B. Zuckerman, eds.; Photographs by B. Zuckerman, K. Zuckerman, M. Lundberg, G. Moller. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; Leiden: Brill, 1998. lv and 1016 pp. (Editor in charge of photography and production of images.)

Double Takes: Thinking & Rethinking Issues of Modern Judaism in Ancient Contexts; co-authored with Zev Garber (Lanham: Univ. Press of America, 2004); including two previously unpublished articles: “The Bible, the Sistine Chapel and the Liberty Bell: How Do We Understand the Bible in Tradition?”; “Every Dot and Tiddle: A Consideration of the Limitations of Computer Imaging for the Study of Dead Sea Scrolls.” .

Monographs:

Two Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from the Wadi el-Hol (Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 59, Part II, 2005) co-authored with J. Darnell, F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, M. J. Lundberg, P. K. McCarter, Jr. 61 pp.

Our Cultural Commonwealth; The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences co-authored with John Unsworth et al. (ACLS, 2006) 43 pp.

Articles:

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https://www.imls.gov/news-events/project-profiles/back-future-redefining-civilization-new-imaging-technology


“The Odd Prophet In and Out,” co-authored with Z. Garber, Le-ma‘an Ziony; Essays in Honor of Ziiony Zevit, ed. F. Greenspahn, G. Rendsburg (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2017) pp. 175-202 (refereed).

“A Methodology for the Digital Reconstruction of Dead Sea Scroll Fragmentary Remains,” co-authored with M. Lundberg, A. Levy, Dead Sea Scrolls in the Museum Collection (Publications of the Museum of the Bible I; E. Tov, K. Davis, R. Duke, eds.; Leiden: Brill, 2016) pp. 36-58; also available in electronic form as “Prologomenon to An Introduction, Practical Guide, Manual and Toolbox for the Digital Reconstruction of Dead Sea Scroll Fragmentary Remains and the Remains of Similar Ancient Documents” http://www.ancientdocumentreconstruction.com/.

“The Application of Digital Technology for the Documentation and Preservation of Mural Paintings in Cave Temples,” co-authored with S. Lee, M. Lundberg, K. Zuckerman, L. Hunt, Proceedings International Conference on Conservation and Researh of the Kucha Caves 2011 (CIP 2025) pp. 78-91 (refereed).

“Peering into the Digital Crystal Ball,” 40 Futures; Experts Predict What’s Next for Biblical Archaeology (Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 2015) pp. 94-100.

“InscriptiFact: Internet Access to High Resolution Images of Ancient Inscriptions and Artifacts from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds,” co-authored with M. Lundberg and L. Hunt, Near Eastern Archaeology 77 (2014) pp. 238-242 (refereed).

“Online Reflectance Transformational Imaging (RTI) viewing capabilities in a Specialized Academic Digital Library,” co-authored with L. Hunt and M. Lundberg, International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society 10 (2014), pp. 57-71 (refereed).

“Using Cutting-edge Technologies to Revisualize the Past,” co-authored with Marilyn Lundberg, Jerry Pattengale, Heather Reichstadt, Ken Zuckerman, J. Pattengale, L. Schiffman, F. Vukosavovic, eds.; Jerusalem: Bible Lands Museum, 2013, pp. 118-125.

“New Eyeballs on Ancient Texts,” Biblical Archaeology Review 37 no. 6 (2011) pp. 28, 69 (see also http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/inscriptions/new-eyeballs-on-ancient-texts/).

“Getting Beyond the Common Denominator,” Literary and Linguistic Computing Advanced Access; co-authored with Leta Hunt and Marilyn Lundberg, published online April 21, 2011; 15 pp. For access: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/fqr007?ijkey=QozlwxBwh2CkIpz&keytype=ref (refereed).

“Concrete Abstractions: Ancient Texts as Artifacts and the Future of Their Documentation and Distribution in the Digital Age,” Text Comparison and

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Digital Creativity; The Production and Presence of Meaning in Digital Text Scholarship (W. van Peursen, E. Thoutenhoofd, A. van der Weel, eds.; Leiden, Brill: 2010); pp. 149-171; co-authored with Leta Hunt and Marilyn J. Lundberg (refereed).

“New Fragments and New Technologies I: Report on the Documentation of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Collection of the Syrian Orthodox Church,” Orion Newsletter 16 (2010); p. 3; co-authored with Kenneth Zuckerman and Marilyn J. Lundberg.

“The Dynamics of Change in the Computer Imaging of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Ancient Inscriptions,” book chapter in Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls; An Assessment of Old and New Approaches and Methods, ed. M. Grossman (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010); pp. 69-88. A substantially revised and expanded electronic version of this article is also available at www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/information/DynamicsDSS, containing inter-active illustrations (refereed).

“Non-Geographic Spatial Search in a Specialized Academic Digital Library,” International Journal of Technology, Knowledge & Society 4.2 (2008): 127-136; co-authored with Leta Hunt and Marilyn J. Lundberg (refereed).

“Three Recently Located Early West Semitic Alphabetic Texts: A Photographic Essay,” Maarav 14 (2007), pp. 27-37 with pls. vi-viii; co-authored with G. Hamilton, M. Marée, and M. Lundberg (refereed).

“An Abecedary of the Mid-Tenth Century B. C. E. from the Judaean Shephelah,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 344 (2006) pp. 4-46; co-authored with Ron Tappy, P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. and Marilyn Lundberg (refereed).

“InscriptiFact, a Tool for Study of Ancient Near Eastern Inscriptions; Impact on Scholarly Practice,” co-authored with Leta Hunt and Marilyn Lundberg, International Journal of Technology, Knowledge & Society 1 (2006), pp. 115-126 (refereed).

“Shading the Difference: A Perspective on Epigraphic Perspectives of the Kheleifeh Jar Stamp Impressions,” Maarav 11 (2004) pp. 233-252, 259-274 (illustrations) (published, February, 2006) (refereed).

“Where are the Flies? Where is the Smoke? The Real and Super-Real in Mel Gibson’s The Passion,” Shofar 23 no. 3 (2005) pp. 129-136; reprinted in Mel Gibson’s Passion; The Film, the Controversy and Its Implications (Z. Garber, ed.; West Lafayette: Purdue Univ., 2006) pp. 31-38.

“InscriptiFact: A Virtual Archive of Ancient Inscriptions from the Near East,” co-authored with Leta Hunt, Marilyn Lundberg; Journal of Digital Libraries 5, no. 3 (2005) pp. 153-166 (refereed).

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“The Amulets from Ketef Hinnom; A New Edition and Evaluation,” co-authored with G. Barkay, M. Lundberg, A. Vaughn; Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 334 (2004) pp. 41-71 (also published in an expanded version electronically on CD-ROM) (refereed).

“The Challenges of Ketef Hinnom: Using Advanced Technologies to Reclaim the Earliest Biblical Texts and their Context,” co-authored with G. Barkay, M. Lundberg, A. Vaughn Near Eastern Archaeology 66 (2003) pp. 162-171 (refereed).

Review: On Scrolls Artefacts and Intellectual Property; T. H. Lim, H. L. MacQueen, C. M. Carmichael, eds; in Review of Biblical Literature (on line).

“Pots and Alphabets: Refractions of Reflections on Typological Method,” in collaboration with Lynn Swartz Dodd; Maarav 10 (2003) pp. 89-133 (refereed).

“The Rabin Assassination in the Long View and the Short View: Biblical Radicalism in a Modern Context,” co-authored with Zev Garber, Haqirah, A Journal of Jewish & Ethnic Studies 1 (2003); pp. 69-88; reissued and revised in Double Takes (see above under “Books”) pp. 79-104 (refereed).

“Working with a Little More Data; New Finds in the 20th Century: The Semitic Languages of the Ancient World,” Israel Oriental Studies XX; Semitic Linguistics: The State of the Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century; S. Izre’el, ed.; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2002; pp. 481-497 (refereed).

“When Images Meet: The Potential of Photographic and Computer Imaging Technology for the Study of the Copper Scroll; co-authored with Marilyn Lundberg, Copper Scrolls Studies; S. Norman, ed.; Sheffield: Sheffield, 2002; pp. 45-57.

“Ancient Texts and Modern Technology; The West Semitic Research Project of the University of Southern California,” co-authored with Marilyn J. Lundberg, AJS Perspectives; The Newsletter of the Association of Jewish Studies, Fall/Winter, 2002, pp. 13-15.

“Eyewitness to the Past: Reclaiming Ancient Inscriptions with Modern Technologies through USC’s West Semitic Research and InscriptiFact Projects,” co-authored with Leta Hunt and Marilyn Lundberg, Biblos 50 (2001) pp. 79-100.

“A Possible Reconstruction of the Name of Haza’el’s Father in the Tel Dan Inscription,” co-authored with Wlilliam Schniedewind, Israel Exploration Journal 51 (2001) pp. 88-91 (refereed).

“Enhancement of Shape Perception by Surface Reflectance Transformation,” co-authored with Tom Malzbender, Dan Gelb and Hans Wolters, HP Labs Technical Reports (HPL-2000-38R1) pp. 1-3 (see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2000/HPL-2000-38R1.html).

“Prototypical Extensions to the Paradigm of Spatial Search,” co-authored with Leta Hunt and Cyrus Shahabi, Journal of Academic Librarianaship 26 (2000), pp. 399-407 (refereed).

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“Photography and Computer Imaging,” co-authored with Kenneth Zuckerman, Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (L. Schiffman, et al., eds.; New York: Oxford Univ., 2000) pp. 669-675 (refereed).

“Technology and Ancient Texts: USC’s West Semitic Research Project,” Electronically published article on www.quantum. com/products/success; January, 1998.

“West Semitic Research Project: Establishing an Image Archive of Ancient Near Eastern Texts,” Journal of Questioned Document Examination 6 (1997) pp. 3-9.

“Lens on Leningrad: Photographing the Codex,” co-authored with Marilyn J. Lundberg and Kenneth Zuckerman, Bible Review 13 (1997) p. 37.

“Photography of Manuscripts,” co-authored with K. Zuckerman, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Near Eastern Archaeology (5 vols.; E. Meyers et. al., eds.; New York: Oxford Univ., 1997), vol. 4, pp. 336-347 (refereed) .

“New Aramaic Fragments from Qumran Cave One,” co-authored with Marilyn J. Lundberg, Newsletter, The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon 12 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 1-5 (refereed).

“Bringing the Dead Sea Scrolls Back to Life; A New Evaluation of the Photographic and Electronic Imaging of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Dead Sea Discoveries 3 (1996), pp. 178-207 (refereed).

“On Being ‘Damned Certain’: The Story of a Curse in the Sefire Inscription and Its Interpretation,” Fortunate the Eyes That See; Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman in Celebration on his Seventieth Birthday; A. Beck, A. Bartelt, P. Raabe, C. Franke, eds.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995, pp. 422-435 (refereed).

“The Führer Over the Auschwitz Convent: The Inside and Outside of the Language of Bias,” co-authored with Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, Proceedings from Remembering for the Future, Berlin International Conference: 13-17 March 1994. Also published in What Kind of God; Essays in Honor of Richard L. Rubenstein (B. Rubenstein, M. Berenbaum et al., eds.; Lanham, New York, London: Univ. Press of America, 1995, pp. 95-113. Also reprinted as, “The Furor Over the Auschwitz Convent: The Inside and Outside of the Language of Bias,” co-authored with Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, From Prejudice to Destruction: Western Civilization in the Shadow of Auschwitz, (Munster, LIT Verlag: 1996) pp. 167-179; reissued and revised in Double Takes (see “Books,” above) pp. 57-78 (refereed).

“The Throne of cAshtart Inscription,” co-authored with James R. Davila; Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 289 (1993); pp. 67-80 (refereed).

“A Fragment of an Unstudied Column of 11QtgJob: A Preliminary Report,” in collaboration with Stephen A. Reed, Newsletter, The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon. 10 (Summer, 1993) 1-7 (refereed).

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“The Nora Puzzle,” Let Your Colleagues Praise You: Studies in Memory of Memory Stanley Gevirtz I, Maarav, A Journal for the Study of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures 7 [1991] (April /1993) 269-301, plates 1-2 (refereed).

“Doing the Dead Sea Scrolls,” co-authored with K. Zuckerman, Photomethods, August 1990; pp. 30-33.

“Reformatting the Dead Sea Scrolls,” The Folio, The Newsletter of the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center for Preservation and Research, Claremont, CA, Volume 9 number 3, October 1989; pp. 1-2.

“Why Do We Call the Holocaust ‘The Holocaust’?; An Inquiry into the Psychology of Labels,” co-authored with Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College; Proceedings of the Conference Remembering for the Future; The Impact of the Holocaust and Genocide of Jews and Christians; Oxford, July 10-18, 1988; pp. 1879-1892. “Why Do We Call the Holocaust ‘The Holocaust’?; An Inquiry into the Psychology of Labels,” (slightly revised), co-authored with Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College; Modern Judaism, (May 1989); pp. 197-211; reprinted in Z. Garber, Shoah, The Paradigmatic Genocide; Essays in Exegesis and Eisegesis; Studies in the Shoah, vol. VIII (Lanham: Univ. Press of America, 1994); pp. 51-66; reissued and revised in Double Takes (see “Books,” above) pp. 3-30 (refereed).

“The Date of 11Q Targum Job: A Paleographic Consideration of Its Vorlage,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 1 (1987); pp. 57-78 (refereed).

Puzzling Out the Past: Making Sense of Ancient Inscriptions from Biblical Times; Exhibition Catalogue, written in collaboration with Douglas M. Gropp, Wayne Pitard and Bezalel Porten; 1987: West Semitic Research Project. 48 pp. also including 11 of my photographs and 17 of my drawings.

“‘A Kid in Milk’: New Photographs of KTU 1.23, Line 14,” co-authored with Robert Ratner, Hebrew Union College Annual 57 (1986); pp. 15-60 (refereed).

“Choosing Among the Strands: Teaching Old Testament to Undergraduates at a Secular University,” Methodology in the Academic Teaching of Judaism (ed., Zev Garber; Lanham: Univ. Press of America, 1986); pp. 87-111. Revised version published in Academic Approaches to the Teaching of Jewish Studies (ed., Zev Garber, Lanham: Univ. Press of America, 2000); pp. 55-82 (refereed).

“Preface, Introduction and ‘Post-Mortem’”; Necrology in the Greco-Roman World; Catalogue for a student exhibition in the Doheny Library, USC sponsored by the USC Archaeological Research Collection; Spring, 1986; unpaged.

“Rereading a Reading, Two Epigraphers speak out on the ‘Kid in Milk’ Reading in a Ugaritic Text,” co-authored with Robert Ratner, Bible Review 1 no. 3 (1985); pp. 56-58.

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“The Menorah as Symbol of Jewish Minority Status,” co-authored with Steven Fine, Fusion in the Hellenistic East Exhibition Catalogue (June-July, 1985); pp. 28-35.

“The Book of Job,” The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible Supplementary Volume, (Nashville: Abingdon, 1984); pp. 479-481 (refereed).

“For Your Sake; A Case Study in Aramaic Semantics,” Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, 15 (1983); pp. 119-129 (refereed).

“New Techniques and Ancient Texts,” Newsletter, American Schools of Oriental Research no. 8 (June, 1981); pp. 6-7.

“Two Examples of Editorial Modification in 11QtgJob,” Biblical and Near Eastern Studies, Essays in Honor of William Sanford LaSor; G. A. Tuttle, ed.; Grand Rapids, 1975; pp. 269-275.

West Semitic Research Project

The West Semitic Research Project is an image archival project with particular focus on Northwest Semitic inscriptions and texts. The archive currently contains in excess of 1,000,000 images in photographic and digital formats.

Significant holdings of the archive (in approximate chronological order):

Proto-cuneiform and cuneiform literary and economic tablets and stone inscriptions (Mespotamia) in the collections of the British Museum, Louvre, Tel Aviv University, Oriental Institute (University of Chicago), Yale Babylonian Collection, the Vorderasiatisches Museum (Berlin), the USC Archaeological Research Center, the Green Collection (Oklahoma City) and private collections (c. 3rd to 1st Millenium BCE).

Wadi el-Hol Inscriptions (Central Egypt): earliest known alphabetic inscriptions (c. 1700 BCE)

Wadi Serabit Inscriptions (Sinai Peninsula, Egypt): significant corpus of early alphabetic inscriptions (c. 1500 BCE)

El Amarna corpus (Central Egypt): cuneiform diplomatic correspondence between Canaan and Egypt, British Museum and Staatliche Museum, Berlin (c. 1400 BCE)

Cylinder Seals from Mesopotamia: inscribed and uninscribed cylinder seals in the collections of the British Museum, Staatliche Museen (Berlin), Bible Lands Museum (Israel), Spurlock Museum (Univ. of Illinois), USC Archaeological Research Collection (c. 1800-600 BCE)

Ugaritic Corpus (Syria): alphabetic cuneiform texts from the coastal port of Ugarit and its environs, featuring the most detailed religious narratives of early Canaan, Louvre, Aleppo and Damascus Museums (c. 1300 BCE)

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Tel Zayit Inscriptions: earliest known Hebrew inscriptions from a provenanced site, Israel Antiquities Authorty (c. 10th Century BCE)

Phoenician and Aramaic texts from Byblos (Lebanon): primarily monumental, royal inscriptions and some treaty documents written on stone in the National Museum, Beirut (c. 1000-400 BCE)

Colonial Phoenician texts (Cyprus): monumental and other, primarily funerary, texts, National Museum, Nicosia (c. 800-400 BCE)

Phoenician and Aramaic texts from the Southern Levant (Turkey): primarily monumental, royal inscriptions from Zinjirli and Incirli, Gaziantep Museum, Turkey, Staatliche Museen, Berlin (c. 900-700 BCE)

First Temple Hebrew Inscriptions (Israel): ostraca collections from Samaria, Lachish, Arad and other Israelite sites, Israel Museum, Israel Antiquities Authority, University of Tel Aviv (800-600 BCE).

Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite inscriptions (Jordan): a wide variety of texts in various media, Amman National Museum, Louvre, College de France (c. 800-400 BCE)

Ivory Pomegranate Inscription, Jehoash Inscription and other texts of uncertain authenticity and provenance, Israel Museum and a private collection (c. 800 BCE?)

Tel Dan Inscription (Israel): Aramaic inscription with earliest known mention of the “house of David,” Israel Antiquities Authority (c. 800 BCE)

Deir Alla Inscription (Jordan): text on plaster documenting a prophetic vision of Balaam, Amman National Museum (c. 700 BCE)

Neo-Assyrian Bas Reliefs from the Palace of Khorsabad, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago (c. 700 BCE)

Ketef Hinnom Amulets (Israel): minute silver scrolls in Hebrew containing the earliest known citation of a passage also known in the Bible (Priestly Benediction in Numbers) (c. 600 BCE)

Persepolis Fortification Archive (Persia/Iran): a coherent corpus of Aramaic and Elamite economic texts, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago (c. 600 BCE).

Elephantine Corpus (Southern Egypt): various Aramaic papyri documenting life of Jewish mercenaries guarding the southern approaches to Egypt during the Persian Empire, Aegyptesche Museum, Berlin, Brooklyn Museum (c. 500-400 BCE)

Early Hebrew, Greek and Roman coinage: inscribed coins from the Persian Period through the Second Jewish Revolt, Pepperdine, private collections (c. 400 BCE–150 CE)

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Silver cups and terracotta from the Getty Villa Collections (c. 200 BCE)

Amherst Papyrus 63 (Central Egypt): Aramaic text written in Demotic script documenting quasi-Jewish/Egyptian ritual practices, Morgan Library (c. 200 BCE)

Dead Sea Scrolls (in academic institutions in Israel, Jordan, Paris, Teaneck, NJ, Fort Worth, TX, Azusa, CA, Spikestaad, Norway, Oklahoma City and from private collections): Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek scrolls from the intertestamental period and later, mostly from Qumran, Murrabaat and Masada. (c. 200 BCE –150 CE)

“Vision of Gabriel” inscribed stone (Israel, Dead Sea Region?), private collection (c. 1st Century CE).

Ossuary with the so-called “James the brother of Jesus” of uncertain authenticity and provenance, private collection (c. 1st Century CE).

Codex Syrus Sinaiticus (Sinai, Egypt): early manuscript of the gospels in Syriac and the oldest known translation of these texts from Greek, St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai (c. 300-500 CE)

Codex Climaci Rescriptus (selected pages): early Christian palimpsest ms., Green Collection (c. 500-700 CE)

Early Buddhist paintings from the caves of Kucha in western China Metropolitan Museum, New York, East Asian Museum, Berlin (5th Century CE)

Early Buddhist inscribed statuary from Korea, Korean Regional Museums (8th Century CE)

Codex Leningrad (Cairo, Egypt; now in St. Petersburg, Russia): oldest complete Masoretic Bible, St. Petersburg (c 1000 CE)

Spherical panoramas and RTI detailed images of various interiors of medieval churches in the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus (1100-1500 CE)

Selected woodcuts and original plates of M. C. Escher, private collectio (20th Century CE)

St. John’s Bible (selected pages); a modern illuminated Bible, St. John’s College, Minnesota (21st Century CE)

Field Projects of the WSRP in chronological order (1983-2014):

Paris, Louvre (summer, 1983): photographic documentation of a series of Ugaritic, Phoenician and Aramaic texts.

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Berlin, Staatliche Museen, (summer, 1984): photographic documentation of the entire corpus of Egyptian Aramaic texts in the Museum, primarily fifth century B.C.E. Elephantine papyri.

Sinai, Egypt, St. Catherine’s Monastery, (summer, 1985): joint project with the Princeton Theological Seminary to photographically document Codex Syrus Sinaiticus, one of the oldest gospel manuscripts in existence and the earliest known translation into Syriac.

Brooklyn Museum (spring, 1987): photographic documentation of the entire corpus of Elephantine Aramaic papyri in their collection.

Jerusalem (January, 1988): joint project with the Princeton Theological Seminary to photographically document a number of Dead Sea Scrolls from the Shrine of the Book and Rockefeller Museums, including the Genesis Apocryphon and the Temple Scroll.

Amman (December, 1988): joint project with the Princeton Theological Seminary to photographically document the entire corpus of Dead Sea Scrolls in Jordan with special attention to the Copper Scroll, as well as a series of Ammonite, Moabite and Edomite inscriptions.

Damascus/Aleppo (summer, 1989): joint project with Prof. Wayne Pitard of the University Illinois to photographically document a series of Ugaritic and Aramaic inscriptions.

Leningrad (summer, 1990): joint project with the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center at the Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library, Oriental Collection to document photographically Firkowitsch Ms. B 19a, the oldest complete Masoretic Hebrew Bible in the world.

Berlin (summer, 1991): joint project with the Institute of Antiquity and Christianity at the Aegyptische Museum and the Bodesmuseum to document photographically the Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis Codex and selected Aramaic & Greek Papyri.

Jerusalem (winter, 1992): joint project with the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center and Shrine of the Book to reformat the corpus of original Dead Sea Scroll negatives in the Shrine archive as well as doing new photographs of Dead Sea Scrolls.

Los Angeles/Pasadena: (spring-summer, 1993): a project developed in collaboration with Dr. Gregory Bearman of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to do specialized infra red and multi-spectral imaging of various ancient media including small samples of inscribed Dead Sea Scrolls.

Jerusalem (summer, 1994): several related projects in collaboration with the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center and at the invitation of the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Shrine of the Book and the Bible Lands Museum to photograph and

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analyze a broad range of ancient texts including Dead Sea Scrolls, the Ketef Hinnom Silver Amulets (the earliest objects containing biblical quotations), ancient seals, bullae, ostraca and papyri from the First Temple Period.

Paris (summer, 1994): joint project with Prof. Wayne Pitard, University of Illinois to continue the photographic documentation of the Ugaritic texts (see above) under the auspices of the Writings from the Ancient World Project funded by the Society of Biblical Literature and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

London (fall, 1995): project to photograph a wide range of unpublished ancient Near Eastern texts from a private collection.

Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center Dead Sea Scroll Reformatting Project (1988-1995): Project to reformat the corpus of original Dead Sea Scroll negatives in the ABMC collection.

Gaziantep, Turkey (fall, 1995): joint project with Elizabeth Carter, Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles and Stephen A. Kaufman, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati to study, photograph, evaluate and publish the Incirli Stele, discovered in 1993.

London, British Museum (fall, 1996): project to photograph a series of Ugaritic and Mesopotamian cuneiform texts in the museum’s Western Asiatic Collection.

Gaziantep, Turkey (fall, 1996): continuation (see above) of joint project with Elizabeth Carter and Stephen Kaufman to do a further detailed photographic analysis of the Incirli Stele.

Paris, College de France, Institut d’Étude Sémitique (summer, 1997): joint project with Wayne Pitard, University of Illinois, Brian Schmidt, University of Michigan, in collaboration with the Mission de Ras Shamra to rephotograph early negative images of Ugaritic tablets.

Cyprus (summer, 1997): joint project with P. Kyle McCarter, the Johns Hopkins University and Roger Woodard, University of Southern California, to photograph various Phoenician and Cypro-Minoan inscriptions in the Cypriot museums; supported in part by grants from the Ahmanson Foundation and the Zumberge Fund for Innovative Research.

Israel (summer, 1997): project to photograph a wide range of inscriptions and other antiquities at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Tel Aviv (in association with Israel Finkelstein and Edward Greenstein), the Shrine of the Book (in association with Ada Yardeni) and the Bible Lands Museum.

Israel (summer and fall, 1998): project to photograph and digitize archival negatives documenting a series of ancient Hebrew ostraca in the Institute of Archaeology,

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University of Tel Aviv and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (in collaboration with Chris Rollston, the Johns Hopkins University.

Syria (fall and spring, 1999): continuation of joint project with Wayne Pitard, University of Illinois, to document major Ugaritic texts in the Damascus and Aleppo Museums.

Egypt (summer, 1999): joint project with J. and D. Darnell, Yale University, F. Dobbs-Allsopp, Princeton Theological Seminary and P. Kyle McCarter, the Johns Hopkins University to photograph the Wadi el-H˚ol early alphabetic inscriptions.

London, British Museum (summer, 1999): continuation of the project initiated in 1996. The entire corpus of MIS PI incantations in the museum’s collections were documented and a project was begun photographically to document the British Museum’s collection of El Amarna cuneiform tablets.

Los Angeles, CA (1999-2000): joint project with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA photographically to document the scarabs in the LACMA and USCARC collections.

Cambridge, MA, Harvard Semitic Museum (summer, 2000): project to photograph and digitize archival glass negatives documenting the Samaria Ostraca and the early alphabetic inscription from Wadi Serabit in the Sinai Desert.

New York, NY, J. Pierpoint Morgan Library (summer, 2000): joint project with Richard Steiner, Yeshiva University, to document Amherst Papyrus 63.

Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Archaeological Museum (summer, 2000): joint project with Chris A. Rollston, The Johns Hopkins University, to photograph the Gibeon Jar Handle Inscriptions.

Los Angeles, CA. Joint project with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA photographically to document the scarabs in the LACMA and USCARC collections (2000-2001)

New Haven, CT, Yale University, Yale Babylonian Collection (summer, 2000): joint project with Thomas Malzbender and Daniel Gelb of the Hewlett-Packard Imaging Laboratory to photograph and image a variety of texts in the collection.

Amman, Jordan; Amman Citadel Museum and University Museum (summer, 2001): joint project with Chris A. Rollston, The Johns Hopkins University and Brooke Lester, Princeton Theological Seminary to photograph a wide range of Northwest Semitic inscriptions in the museum collections.

Santa Ana, CA, Bowers Museum and Israel Antiquities Authority (fall, 2001); joint project to do a detailed photographic documentation of the Tel Dan Inscriptions and two Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Beverly Hills, CA. (summer, 2002); project to do a detailed photographic documentation of a selection of Jewish coins in the collection of Alan Casden.

Beirut, Lebanon, National Museum (summer, 2002); project to photograph Phoenician and Aramaic inscriptions.

Amman Jordan (summer, 2002), project to photograph various Northwest Semitic inscriptions among the holdings of the Department of Antiquities.

Deir Alla Image Documentation Project (fall, 2002- ); project in cooperation with the University of Leiden and E. J. Brill to copy and digitize original early negatives and color transparencies of the Deir Alla Inscription.

London, British Museum (summer, 2003): third installment of a project initiated in 1996. We continued our photographic documentation of the British Museum’s collection of El Amarna cuneiform tablets.

Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum (summer 2003): project to photograph various Aramaic and Phoenician texts on stone monuments from Zinjirli in Anatolia. Other texts from ancient Ashur were also documented as well as a number of cylinder seals from Mesopotamia, utilizing a specialized digital camera and fiber optic lights that allows one to record the entire surface design in 360 degrees.

Los Angeles, Skirball Museum (spring, 2004): project to photograph the Skirball’s cylinder seal collection, utilizing a specialized digital camera and fiber optic lights that allows one to record the entire surface design in 360 degrees.

London, British Museum (summer, 2004): fourth installment of a project initiated in 1996. We concluded our photographic documentation of the British Museum’s collection of El Amarna cuneiform tablets and also documented a number of cuneiform tablets of the Hellenistic Period. We also began an image documentation of Mesopotamian cylinder seals in the British Museum, utilizing a specialized digital camera and fiber optic lights that allows one to record the entire surface design in 360 degrees.

Beverly Hills, CA (spirng, 2005); second project to do a detailed photographic documentation of a selection of Jewish coins in the collection of Alan Casden.

Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum (summer, 2005): second project to photograph El Amarna cuneiform texts.

Jerusalem, Albright Institute (fall, 2005); project to photograph the Tel Zayit inscriptions.

Urbana-Champaign, IL Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois (summer, 2006-spring, 2007); project to document 62 ancient Mesopotamian cylinder and stamp seals as part of a joint undergraduate research project.

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Oriental Institute, University of Chicago (2007 and ongoing); project to document Aramaic, Elamite and endorsed but uninscribed tablets from the Persepolis Fortification Archive.

Institut Catholique and Bibliotheque Nationale de France (January, 2008); project to document all the Dead Sea Scroll fragments in these collections.

Los Angeles, CA (spring, 2008); project to document a series of Dead Sea Scroll fragments in private hands.

Israel (August, 2008); observers in a “Pilot Project” for the digital documentation of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Antiquity Authority in Jerusalem

Houston, TX (February and April, 2009); Project to photograph the “Vision of Gabriel” ink on stone inscription.

Teaneck, NJ (August, 2009); Project to photograph a group of Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran Cave 1 in the possession of the Syrian Orthodox Church.

Los Angeles, CA (March, 2010); Project to photograph a group of ancient Korean antiquities at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

New York City, NY (June, 2010); Project to photograph a group of ancient Chinese paintings from Kucha at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

London, British Museum (Summer, 2010); Project to do reflectance transformation images of a series of Ugaritic tablets in the museum’s collection; done in collaboration with Dr. Wayne Pitard of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Fort Worth, TX (September, 2010); Project to photograph a group of Dead Sea Scroll fragments and selected other ancient antiquities at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Azusa, CA (September, 2010); Project to photograph a group of Dead Sea Scrolls at Azusa Pacific University.

ARC Smart Documentation Project (September, 2010 and ongoing). USC International Museum Studies Institute, the USC Archaeology Research Center, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)’s Art and Artifact Collection, InscriptiFact and mentored USC undergraduate students joined together to provide LAUSD sixth-grade students hands-on access to ancient objects—real artifacts—in their own classrooms. Artifacts owned by LAUSD were documented in images by WSRP using conventional and/or RTI imaging technologies. The images were then made available through InscriptiFact. See further:

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http://dornsife.usc.edu/videos/view/373/arc-smart/.

Spikestaad, Norway (January, 2011); Project to photograph a series of Dead Sea Scrolls and various other ancient texts and artifacts in the collection of Martin Schøyen.

Fort Worth, TX (March, 2011); Project to do further photographic work on Dead Sea Scroll fragments and other ancient antiquities at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Chicago, IL; project at Oriental Institute, University of Chicago (March, 2011) to produce reflectance transformation images of Neo Assyrian Bas Reliefs from the Palace of Khorsabad in collaboration with the Cuneiform Digital Libray Initiative, UCLA.

New York City, NY (June, 2011); project in the Columbia University Library to produce a series of reflectance transformation images of a series of ancient Chinese oracle bones; done in collaboration with Dr. Adam Smith at Columbia.

Collegeville, MN (September, 2011); project at St. John’s College to photograph selected illuminated pages from the St. John’s Bible employing reflectance transformation imaging technology.

USC/Pepperdine University Collaborative Ancient Coin Documentation Pilot Project (December, 2011-Janiuary, 2012), to begin documentation of Pepperdine’s extensive ancient Middle Eastern coin collection (about 1200 exemplars from the Persian through the Crusader and Islamic periods), employing RTI technology. This collection is designed to facilitate teaching of the civilizations of the Middle East during this span of history. The pilot project on a sample of the coins (23 coins were done) has been completed to test the effectiveness of RTI-imaging for these coins and has proven highly successful.

Nicosia, Cyprus (February, 2012); project in collaboration with the Cyprus Institute (CI) and the University of Illinois to set up an imaging lab for documentation of ancient texts and artifacts at various Cypriot museums and the Bank of Cyprus.

Berlin, East Asian Museum (February, 2012); project to document a series of early Buddhist wall paintings from the Kucha region and various other artifacts and texts in collaboration with Sonya Lee, Assoc. Professor of Art History at USC.

Nicosia, Cyprus (May, 2012); continuation of project initiated in February, including training and workshops and specific documentation projects of antiquities in Cyprus.

Fort Worth, TX (June, 2012); continuation of a project to photograph various Dead Sea Scroll fragments and selected other ancient antiquities at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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Oklahoma City, OK (June, 2012); project to photograph Dead Sea Scroll fragments, cuneiform tablets and selected other texts and artifacts in the Green Collection.

Chicago, Illinois (July, 2012); project to capture the Khorsabad Assyrian reliefs, using a Panoscan camera system to create spherical panoramic images at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

Charlotte, NC (September, 2012); project to photograph Dead Sea Scroll fragments and other manuscripts and artifacts in the Green Collection.

Urbana-Champaign (November 2012); project to image an El Amarna pavement stone at the Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, using Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI).

Gongju and Seoul, Korea (December, 2012); project to photograph early Buddhist inscribed statuary in the Gongju and Korean National Museums.

Los Angeles, CA (January, 2013); project to document the facsimile of the Copper Scroll (3Q15) utilizing reflectance transformation imaging technology.

Urbana-Champaign (January, 2013); project to document ancient papyri at the Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois.

Colorado Springs, CO (May, 2013); project to document an early manuscript fragment of the New Testament book of Romans, known as the Wyman Fragment as well as a selection of medieval illuminated pages from a variety of other manuscripts in the Green Collection.

Stamford, CT (June 2013); project to image a series of prints, woodcuts and etching by M. C. Escher in a private collection.

USC/Pepperdine University Collaborative Ancient Coin Documentation Pilot Project, Part II (June, 2013); project to image nine coins from the Pepperdine Collection as the initial follow-up project to the initial pilot done in 2012.

Los Angeles, CA (September, 2013); project to make RTI images of selected pages from Codex Climaci Rescriptus, an early Christian palimpsest in the Green Collection.

Los Angeles, CA (March, 2014); project to make selected RTI images of details of Roman silver cups and a terracotta figurine of a hedgehog; Getty Villa Collection.

Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel (June, 2015); project to photograph selected Iron Age Inscriptions at the Israel Museum, the Israel

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Antiquities Authority and in a private collection as well as an inscribed ossuary in a private collection.

Paris, France (June-July, 2015); project to photograph the Mesha Inscription and the squeezes made of it at the Louvre Museum and the College de France.

Troodos Mountains, Cyprus (July, 2017); project to make spherical panoramic images and RTI details of the interiors of medieval churches and their painted walls and frescos; done in collaboration with the Cyprus Institute of Technology and the Cyprus Department of Antiquities

Published microfilm:

The Leningrad Codex Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library, Firkovitch B19A; A Microfilm Edition; in collaboration with Kenneth Zuckerman, Marilyn Lundberg and Garth Moller; Claremont: Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center, 1993.

Published Drawings and Digital Reconstructions:

22 figures of the text RS 34.126 for W. Pitard, “RS 34.126; Notes on the Text,” Maarav 4.1 (1987). (refereed)

Drawing of the Seal of Ba‘alyaton for P. C. Schmitz, “The Seal of Ba‘alyaton (WSS 719) and Phoenician Expression of Possession and Affiliation,” Maarav 16.2 (2009) Pl 12 p. 276 (refereed).

Repositioning of fragments and Reconstruction of the text of Dead Sea Scroll fragments for E. Tov, “New Fragments of Amos,” Dead Sea Discoveries 21 (2014) pp. 3-13; see figs. 1 and 2 on pp. 12-13. (refereed)

Numerous Digital Reconstructions of Dead Sea Scroll fragments in the Museum of the Bible Collection, in collaboration with M. Lundberg and editors, Dead Sea Scrolls in the Museum Collection (Publications of the Museum of the Bible I; E. Tov, K. Davis, R. Duke, eds.; Leiden: Brill, 2016) passim (refereed).

Numerous Digital Reconstrucitons of Dead Sea Scroll fragments from the Schøyen Collection, Gleanings from the Caves; Dead Sea Scrolls and Artefacts from the Schøyen Collection (T. Elgvin, K. Davis, M. Langlois, eds.; Bloomsbury: Clark, 2016) passim (refereed).

Exhibitions:

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“Fusion in the Hellenistic East”: Exhibition jointly sponsored by the USC Archaeological Research Collection and the Department of Fine Arts, USC; Fisher Gallery (USC), June-July, 1985.

“The Art of Gandhara”; exhibition done in cooperation with the Doheny Library, USC; Treasure Room, Doheny Library; Fall, 1985.

“The Art of the Ancient Seal”: Exhibition by the USC Archaeological Research Collection; Sinai Temple Library (West Los Angeles, CA), November-December, 1985.

“Necrology in the Greco-Roman World”: Exhibition by the USC Archaeological Research Collection; Treasure Room, Doheny Library, University of Southern California, Spring, 1986.

“Puzzling Out the Past; Making Sense of Ancient Inscription from Biblical Times”; major exhibition by the USC West Semitic Research Project and USC Archaeological Research Collection; Wilshire Boulevard Temple (Los Angeles, CA), April 5 - November 15, 1987.

“The Tangible Talmud: Text and Artifact in the Greco-Roman Period”; exhibition cosponsored with the department of Anthropology, Cal-State Fullerton College; Cal-State Fullerton (Fullerton, CA), Spring, 1987.

“Everyday Life in Iron Age Judaea”; exhibition cosponsored with the department of Anthropology, Cal-State Fullerton College; Cal-State Fullerton; (Fullerton, CA), March, 1987.

“Ancient Manuscripts”: Exhibition by the Millikin University, (Decatur, IL) February 3-25, 1994. I supplied 28 photographic prints ranging in sizes 11x14 to 20x24 of various items: Dead Sea Scroll fragments, Leningrad codex, seals, Ugaritic tablets, Berlin papyri etc. for the exhibition.

“The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls”: Exhibition by the de Young Museum, (San Francisco, CA), February 26-May 29, 1994. I supplied 18 photographic prints ranging in sizes 11x14 to 16x20 of various Dead Sea Scroll fragments, the Leningrad Codex, etc. for the exhibition.I also helped to conceive and write, in collaboration with Marilyn Lundberg and Kenneth Zuckerman, a computer imaging demonstration.

Photographic Exhibition featuring a number of Dead Sea Scroll images from West Semitic Research Archives at the Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus, Jewish Federation Valley Alliance, in association with “Akeldama; Tombs of the Jerusalem Aristocracy from the Diaspora to Jerusalem, spring and summer, 1997.

“Discoveries by the Dead Sea: The Scrolls Fifty Years Later.” A Photographic Exhibit in Iowa City, Iowa, September, 1997-May, 1998 by the School of Religion, University of Iowa. I supplied twelve photos for this exhibition.

Image of Ketef Hinnom Silver Amulet employed as part of a permanent exhibition, “The Bible as Artifact,” at the Archaeological Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, Fall, 1999.

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“Women in Antiquity; an Exhibit Accompanying the Conference, ‘Feminism and Classics 3: The Next Generation.” An Exhibition of artifacts from the USC Archaeological Research Collection, James Harmon Hoose Library of Philosophy, May 18-21, 2000.

“Treasures from the Holy Land.” An Exhibition of artifacts from Israel including two Dead Sea Scrolls and the Tel Dan Inscription. at the Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA. USC’s Archaeological Research Collection participated in allowing display of an ink well in its collection from the Herodian period. September, 2001-January, 2002.

Research, Grants and Fees (in reverse chronological order)

$50,000 grant from a private donor to underwrite a project to do spherical panoramas and RTI details of the painted wall and frescoes in various medieval churches of the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus; awarded spring, 2017 (principal investigator).

$25,000 fee for making digital reconstructions of 12 Dead Sea Scroll fragments in the Green Collection. Co-principal investigator with Marilyn Lundberg, 2014-2015.

Grant of $20,075 for “Integrating Spectral and Reflectance Transformation Imaging Technologies for the Digitization of Manuscripts and Other Cultural Artifacts”; NEH Digital Humanities Start-up Grant Level II; awarded March, 2013 (principal investigator).

Grant of $20,000 from USC Trustee Y. H. Cho to support a pilot project in South Korea to photograph early Buddhist statuary at the Gongju Museum and National Museum (Seoul); awarded December, 2012 (principal investigator).

Grant of $399,714 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to establish a Fellowship and Training Program to empower library and museum professionals, archivists, researchers, scholars, and students to carry out their own field projects involving highly sophisticated image documentation of ancient texts, artifacts, paintings and other cultural heritage objects; awarded June, 2012 (principal investigator).

Grant of $107,825 as a subcontract from the University of Illinois from the Cyprus Research and Education Foundation (Nicosia) to establish a center for advanced image documentation and distribution of ancient texts and artifacts from Cyprus; awarded May, 2012.

Grant of $30,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a two-year pilot project to begin to establish a “lending library” of digital imaging equipment to be loaned along with the requisite training to entities doing projects on ancient texts and artifacts worldwide; awarded, March, 2012 (principal investigator).

Grant of $5000 from the Farhang Foundation for support of USC’s work on the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project; awarded May, 2011 (principal investigator).

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Grant of $3,200 from the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, UCLA in support of a project to do reflectance transformation images of Neo-Assyrian bas-reliefs from the Khorsabad Palace, currently in the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago; awarded April, 2011 (principal investigator).

Renewal of Grant in the amount of $307,270 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (subcontracted from a grant of $636,000 awarded to the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) to concluded the Emergency Rescue Project to Preserve, Publish and Distribute the Persepolis Fortification Archive: The Aramaic Tablets; awarded, March, 2011 (co-principal investigator).

Grant of $15,000 from Mark Lanier for support of Dead Sea Scroll documentation project in Spikestaad, Norway; awarded February, 2011 (principal investigator).

Grant of $88,018 from the USC Provost to support substantial upgrade for the InscriptiFact Image Database; awarded December, 2009 (principal investigator).

Renewal of Grant in the amount of $299,838.40 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (subcontracted from a grant of $700,000 awarded to the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) for the Emergency Rescue Project to Preserve, Publish and Distribute the Persepolis Fortification Archive: The Aramaic Tablets; awarded, December, 2008 (co-principal investigator).

Grant of $20,000 from the Office of the Provost, USC, in support of the advancement of InscriptiFact (awarded, spring, 2008).

Grant of $30,000 from the Office of the Provost, USC, for the development of InscriptiFact (awarded, spring, 2007).

Grant of $80,000 from the Council of Deans, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign for seed funding of a consortial network for the InscriptiFact Image Database ($40,000 per year for 2007 and 2008); awarded January, 2007.

Grant of $283,421 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (subcontracted from a grant of $526,253 awarded to the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) for the Emergency Rescue Project to Preserve, Publish and Distribute the Persepolis Fortification Archive: The Aramaic Tablets; awarded, December, 2006 (co-principal investigator).

“Leadership” Grant of $600,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a hardware/software development project in association with Cultural Heritage Imaging; awarded, October, 2006 (principal investigator).

Grant of $50,000 from Walter and Elise Haas Fund in support of “Jews in the Golden State,” a multimedia project exploring the history of Jews in California; awarded, September, 2006 (co-principal investigator).

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Grant of $50,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for InscriptiFact Infrastructure, Consortium Planning, and Undergraduate Research through the InscriptiFact Image Database; awarded, August, 2006 (principal investigator).

Special grant of $20,000 from the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences for support of InscriptiFact infrastructure; awarded June, 2006 (principal investigator).

Grant from the Annenberg Center for Communication of $20,000 for support of InscriptiFact infrastructure; awarded May, 2006 (principal investigator).

Mellon Mentoring Award for $15,000 for “Imaging Indiana Jones: Undergraduate Research in Archaeology as an Inter and Inter-University Project Across the Curriculum. A proposal for a Interdisciplinary Multi-University Mentoring Web Program.” Awarded, April, 2006. Funding for this project was matched by the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (co-principal investigator).

Grant in support of Innovative Teaching from USC’s Provost for $15,000 for support of Linguistics 295g. Awarded jointly with Anne Balsamo, July, 2005 (co-principal investigator).

Special grant of $54,700 from USC’s Provost in support of the InscriptiFact Project; awarded, April, 2005. (co-principal investigator)

Undergraduate Research Grant award from USC Letters, Arts and Sciences for $7,500 to support a summer project of mentored research by undergraduates in archaeology. Awarded jointly with Lynn Swartz, April, 2005. (co-principal investigator)

Undergraduate Research Grant award from USC Letters, Arts and Sciences for $10,000 to support mentored research by undergraduates in archaeology. Awarded jointly with Lynn Swartz, April, 2005. (co-principal investigator)

Grant from the Information Services Division, USC of $15,000 for support of the InscriptiFact Project. Awarded, January, 2005 (co-principal investigator).

Annenberg Center for Communication supplemental grant of $15,000 as continued support for the “Ancient Inscriptions from Biblical Times: Their Access and Educational Use in the Digital Age” project. Awarded, October, 2004. (principal investigator)

Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of $48,000 to support an investigation of the utility of the InscriptiFact image database; awarded, October, 2004. (co-principal investigator)

Undergraduate Research Grant award from USC Letters, Arts and Sciences for $10,000 to support mentored research by undergraduates in archaeology. Awarded jointly with Lynn Swartz, October, 2003. (co-principal investigator)

Software grant from BEA WebLogic, October, 2003; estimated value: $30,000

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Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of $250,000 for Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellow Academic Support Project. Awarded, June, 2003. (co-principal investigator)

Annenberg Center for Communication supplemental grant of $15,000 as continued support for the “Ancient Inscriptions from Biblical Times: Their Access and Educational Use in the Digital Age” project. Awarded, May, 2003. (principal investigator)

Undergraduate Research Grant award from USC Provost’s Office for $9,000 to support mentored research by undergraduates in archaeology. Awarded jointly with Lynn Swartz, October, 2002. (co-principal investigator)

Grant from the Underwood Family Fund of $150,000 to support the West Semitic Research and InscriptiFact Projects. Awarded, August, 2002. (principal investigator)

Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of $750,000 to support the West Semitic Research and InscriptiFact Projects. Awarded, May, 2002. (principal investigator)


Unlimited software license and technical support grant in perpetuity from the Oracle Corporation for the InscriptiFact Project, valued by Oracle at $15,097,500 for the first five year granting period. Awarded January, 2002. (principal investigator)

Undergraduate Research Grant award from USC Letters, Arts and Sciences for $10,000 to support mentored research by undergraduates in archaeology. Awarded jointly with Lynn Swartz, October, 2001. (co-principal investigator)

Arts Initiative Grant from USC Student Senate for $6,000 to do a feasibility study for the rescue, conservation, and restoration of a Roman mosaic floor owned by the School of Architecture. Awarded jointly with Lynn Swartz Dodd and Karen Kensek. Awarded Spring, 2001. (co-principal investigator)

Undergraduate Research Grant award from USC Letters, Arts and Sciences for $10,000 to support mentored research by undergraduates in archaeology. Awarded jointly with Lynn Swartz, January, 2001. (co-prinicipal investigator)

Grant from the Underwood Family Fund of $140,000 to support the West Semitic Research and InscriptiFact Projects. Awarded July, 2001. (principal investigator)


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Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of $12,500 to fund a feasibility study for the further development of the InscriptiFact Project. Awarded with Leta Hunt, April, 2001. (principal investigator)

Undergraduate Research Grant award from USC Provost's Office for $10,000 to support mentored research by undergraduates in archaeology. Awarded jointly with Lynn Swartz, January, 2001. (co-principal investigator)

Equipment grant from Hewlett-Packard of $36,759 for upgrades in Leavey Imaging Laboratory. Awarded, October, 2000. (principal investigator)

Grant from the Information Services Division, USC of $5,000 for supplemental work on the InscriptiFact prototype image database program. Awarded, October, 2000. (pincipal investigator)

Grant from the USC Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching of $10,000 to develop a class co-taught by Lynn Swartz Dodd (material culture), John Pollini (art and “high culture”) and Bruce Zuckerman (text) through Thematic Option and then as a GE course: Accessing Antiquity: Actual Objects in Virtual Spaces. Awarded, Fall, 2000. (co-principal investigator)

Grant from the Center for Scholarly Technology, USC Library of $35,000 for continued development of the InscriptiFact prototype image database program. Awarded, August, 2000. (principal investigator)

Annenberg Center for Communication supplemental grant of $20,000 as continued support for the “Ancient Inscriptions from Biblical Times: Their Access and Educational Use in the Digital Age” project. Awarded, July, 2000. (principal investigator)

Jumpstart Grant award of $10,000 for “Windows on the Ancient World: The ‘On-line’ USC Archaeological Research Collection,” with Lynn Swartz, curator, USC Archaeological Research Collection, July, 2000. (co-principal investigator)

Undergraduate Research Grant award from USC Letters, Arts and Sciences for $8,000 to support mentored research by undergraduates in archaeology. Awarded jointly with Lynn Swartz, January, 2000. (co-principal investigator)

Joint Grant from the University Library and Annenberg Center of Communication of $55,000 to develop a prototype for the InscriptiFact Project. Awarded, November, 1999. (principal investigator)

Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Interdisciplinary Research Grant of $25,000 to do a feasibility study for the InscriptiFact Project, “An Internet-Accessible Image Data Base for Ancient Texts,” with Leta Hunt,. Awarded, July, 1999. (co-principal investigator)

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The Ahmanson Foundation Grant of $25,000 to continue support of field projects for the West Semitic Research Project, and computer imaging projects for the Ancient Manuscript Digitization and Documentation Project. Awarded, June, 1999. (principal investigator)

Annenberg Center of Communication supplemental grant of $12,000 as continued support for the “Ancient Inscriptions from Biblical Times: Their Access and Educational Use in the Digital Age” project. Awarded, January, 1999. (principal investigator)

Annenberg Center of Communication supplemental grant of $12,000 as continued support for the “Ancient Inscriptions from Biblical Times: Their Access and Educational Use in the Digital Age” project. Awarded , January, 1998. (principal investigator)

Annenberg Center for Communication Faculty Research Grant of $67,872 for “Ancient Inscriptions from Biblical Times: Their Access and Educational Use in the Digital Age”; with co-principal investigator, Dr. Ellis Horowitz, Dept. of Computer Science, Awarded November, 1996. (principal investigator)

The Ahmanson Foundation Grant of $25,000 to continue support of field projects for the West Semitic Research Project, and computer imaging projects for the Ancient Manuscript Digitization and Documentation Project. Awarded, July, 1997. (principal investigator)

Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award of $8,000 with Roger Woodard for field project in Cyprus. Awarded, July, 1997. (principal investigator)

Hewlett Foundation Award for General Education Course Development of $5,000 with Roger Woodard for developing the course, “Archaeology and the Origins of Literacy.” Awarded, July, 1997 (co-principal investigator)

Ahmanson Foundation Grant of $25,000 to support field projects for the West Semitic Research Project, and computer imaging projects for the Ancient Manuscript Digitization and Documentation Project. Awarded, July, 1996. (principal investigator)

Ahmanson Foundation Grant of $20,000 to support field projects and computer imaging research for the West Semitic Research Project. Awarded September, 1995. (principal investigator)

Leavey Library Facilities and Equipment Grant of $10,000. Grant awarded by the Leavey Library, USC to establish the Ancient Manuscript Digitization and Distribution Project in the Information Center of the Leavey Teaching Library. Awarded April, 1995. (principal investigator

Supervisor, in cooperation with Prof. Wayne Pitard of the University of Illinois, of a project to distribute in excess of 1000 images of the Ugaritic texts for the Writings of the Ancient World Project funded by the Society of Biblical Literature and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The editors to whom these images are being distributed are using them as the basis for a new translation of the Ugaritic texts. The volume Ugaritic Narrative Poetry (S. Parker, ed.; Scholars, 1997). (1993-1997) (co-principal investigator)

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Leader of the photographic team for the joint WSRP/ABMC project in Leningrad to photograph Firkowitsch B19a, underwritten by funding from the Dorot Foundation, and the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center Project was published in facsimile edition, 1997 (see publications, above ; 1990-1997). (principal investigator)

Grant from University of Southern California “Project Socrates” to support the development of innovative computer programming in reference to archaeology and West Semitic epigraphy on behalf of the USC Archaeological Research Collection and the West Semitic Research Project (1985). (principal investigator)

Service to USC

Column Marshal for Graduation Ceremony (2011-16)

Member of the Personnel Committee for Dornsife College (2011-2012)

Member of the Library Advisory Committee (2008- 2012)

Member of the University Research Committee (2007-2008)

Member of the Advisory Board, USC Hillel (2006-2012); co-chair, Campus Advisory Board (2011-12 )

Member of the Board of Trustees, USC Hillel (2005-2012)

Member of the University Committee on Advancement, Promotion and Tenure (2004-06)

Chair, USC/Mellon Mentoring Project Steering Committee (Chair: 2003-2008, Member 2010-15)

Member of the USC Diversity Requirement Committee (2003-2005)

USC representative on the Mellon Foundation Taskforce on Mentoring (2000-2002)

Member of the USC Faculty Council (2000-2001)

Member of the USC Faculty Senate (2000-2001)

Co-coordinator at USC for the Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program (1999- )

Representative for USC on the Council of Graduate Schools in Religion (1995-2001); secretary/treasurer for the Council (1996-1999); treasurer, (1999-2001)

Non-Resident Faculty Fellow, Birnkrandt College, (1997-2008)

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Other Activities

Member of the Advisory Council for the Department of Religious Studies, Princeton University (1974-1986).

Member of the ASOR/Harvard Semitic Museum Photogrammetry Steering Committee (1982-1987).

Member of the Northwest Semitic Studies Steering Committee for the Society of Biblical Literature (1984-1988).

Member of the Program Committee, Southern California Association for Jewish Studies (1985-1987).

Member of the Ugaritic Seminar Steering Committee for the Society of Biblical Literature (1985-1988).

Chairman of the Northwest Semitic Epigraphy Group for the Society of Biblical Literature (1988-1991).

Coordinator, Southern California Association for Jewish Studies (1988-1991).

Acting Director, Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center, Claremont, CA (1990-1992). As acting director I was executive in charge of the ABMC’s projects and manager of its photographic archive of ancient biblical and related manuscripts.

Member, Board of Directors, Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center (1986-1996) and member of the Executive Committee, Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center (1987-1996).

Member, Board of Trustees, Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (1991- 2001).

Member of the Board of Advisors of The Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation: A Foundation for the Publication and Preservations of the Scrolls from the Judean Desert (1993- ).

Member, Advisory Council for the Program in Jewish Studies, Princeton University (2000- ); Chair of the Council (2000-2004); Acting Chair 2009-2010.

Member of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences ( 2004-2006)

Member of National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Panel on Archaeology (2011)

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