Ehud Ben Zvi

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.