He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, Classics and Religion at the University of Alberta, where he worked for the span of his entire academic career.
[1] Ben Zvi’s is the author of Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud (BZAW, 509; Berlin: de Gruyter 2019), History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles (London: Equinox, 2006), Hosea, (FOTL 21A, part 1; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005), Signs of Jonah: Reading and Rereading in Ancient Yehud (JSOTSupS 367; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press/Continuum, 2003),Micah, (FOTL 21b; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000), A Historical-Critical Study of The Book of Obadiah, (BZAW 242; Berlin/New York: deGruyter, 1996), and "A Historical-Critical Study of The Book of Zephaniah", (BZAW 198; Berlin/New York: deGruyter, 1991.
He has also edited and co-edited a substantial number of collected essays volumes (e.g., Remembering Biblical Figures in the Late Persian & Early Hellenistic Periods: Social Memory and Imagination [co-edited with Diana Edelman; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013]; Centres and Peripheries in the Early Second Temple Period [co-edited with Christoph Levin; FAT, 108; Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2016]; "About Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period: Recent Research and Approaches from Archaeology, Hebrew Bible Studies and Ancient Near East Studies" [co-edited with Benedikt Henseland Diana V. Edelman; WANEM; London: Equinox, 2022]), and some special issues of journals (e.g., HebAI 9/4 (2020); Thematical Issue: Tōrâ-centred Israel.
He has published numerous essays on social memory studies as they pertain to Ancient Israel, the historical and prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible.
History, Memory, Hebrew Scriptures: A Festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi included contributions by Yairah Amit, Athalya Brenner-Idan, and Gary Knoppers.