Ehud Ben Zvi


Ehud Ben Zvi is an Argentina-born Canadian historian of ancient Israel focusing on the Achaemenid period and a scholar of the Hebrew Bible with a focus on Social Memory. 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.

Education

Ehud Ben Zvi was born in Argentina. He moved to Israel and graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a BSc, the Open University of Israel with a BA, and Tel Aviv University, MA before obtaining his PhD from Emory University under Gene Tucker.

Academic scholarship

Ben Zvi's is the author of Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud, History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles, Hosea,, Signs of Jonah: Reading and Rereading in Ancient Yehud,''Micah,, A Historical-Critical Study of The Book of Obadiah,, and "A Historical-Critical Study of The Book of Zephaniah",, and with two of his former students "Readings in Biblical Hebrew. An Intermediate Textbook",.
He has also edited and co-edited a substantial number of collected essays volumes, and some special issues of journals. He has published numerous essays on social memory studies as they pertain to Ancient Israel, the historical and prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible. A list of his works can be accessed at https://sites.ualberta.ca/~ebenzvi/ebz-publications.html and at
Ben Zvi founded the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures in 1996 and served as its general editor until 2013. He was one of the founders and served as first chair of the SBL International Cooperation Initiative, 2006-2013, and was one of the two founding co-editors of Ancient Near East Monographs.
He has served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature, European Association of Biblical Studies, the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, 2001-2002, and the Pacific-Northwest American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature.
In 2015, a Festschrift was published in his honour. History, Memory, Hebrew Scriptures: A Festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi.''