Gary A. Rendsburg

Gary A. Rendsburg (born 1954) is a professor of biblical studies, Hebrew language, and ancient Judaism at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

He built his case based both on internal biblical evidence and on the fact that many Israelian Hebrew features occur in Phoenician, Moabite, and Aramaic, dialects and languages which border the territory of northern (and Transjordanian) Israel, but not Judah in the south.

[25] Rendsburg has written widely on a host of ancient Hebrew literary and stylistic devices, including wordplay,[26][27] alliteration,[28][29][30][31] style-switching,[32] repetition with variation,[33][34] and the intentional use of confused syntax.

[42][43][44] Rendsburg has developed three websites devoted to medieval Hebrew manuscripts: The first (developed with Jacob Binstein) is devoted to the book of Ben Sira, whose documentary evidence ranges from Qumran and Masada in antiquity to the Cairo Genizah in the medieval period, and whose manuscripts are found in Cambridge, Oxford, London, Paris, Jerusalem, New York, and Los Angeles.

[46] The second (developed with Joshua Blachorsky) presents to the public an incomplete yet very valuable manuscript of the Mishnah, known as JTS MS R1622.1,[47] housed in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

The third (developed with Peter Moshe Shamah) reunites all of the documentary evidence from the Cairo Genizah relevant to the life of Johannes of Oppido = Obadiah the Proselyte at a single website.

Rendsburg has traveled extensively in the Near East, he has participated in excavations at Tel Dor and Caesarea, and he has visited all the major archaeological sites of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan.

[59] In addition, he produced an online mini-course, "The Bible and History" (free and available to the public at large) available through the Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University (2022).