Bruce Zuckerman
- Director, USC West Semitic Research Project
- Director, USC InscriptiFact Project
- Director, Archaeological Research Collection at USC
- Professor of religion, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Distinguished faculty fellow, Center for Excellence in Teaching
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Expertise Summary
Expert on the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern texts, specializing in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Near Eastern artifacts and literature
Expertise
- Hebrew Bible
- early Judaism
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- ancient Near Eastern artifacts
- West Semitic inscriptions
- ancient Near Eastern literature
- religions and history of the ancient Near East
- technical photography of ancient texts
- image databasing of ancient inscriptions
- RTI (reflectance transformation imaging) and PTM (polynomial texture-mapping)
- archaeology of the ancient Near East
- technology and scholarship
Additional Information
- Author, Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint (1992)
- Co-author, Double Takes: Thinking and Rethinking Issues of Modern Judaism in Ancient Contexts (2004)
- Senior editor, Maarav, a Journal for the Study of Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures
- Associate editor, The Leningrad Codex: a Facsimile Edition (1998)