James K. Hoffmeier


James K. Hoffmeier is an Egyptian-born American Old Testament scholar, archaeologist, and Egyptologist, specializing in biblical archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, and historicity of the Hebrew Bible. He served as Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Education and career

Hoffmeier graduated with a B.A. at Wheaton College, followed by a M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto.
During the period from 1975 to 1977, Hoffmeier worked on the Akhenaten Temple Project based in Luxor, Egypt. He has been the Professor of Archaeology and Old Testament at Wheaton College. He was director of excavations at Tell el-Borg, Sinai Peninsula from 1998 to 2008. Additionally he is often called upon as a consultant for television programs made for the History, Discovery, Learning, and National Geographic Channels.
Hoffmeier has written articles published in academic journals specialized in the field of Egyptology, including the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Revue d'Égyptologie, and Ägypten und Levante. He served as a contributor for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, the Anchor Bible Dictionary, and the New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology & Exegesis. He served as an archaeological editor for the English Standard Version Study Bible and has authored several books on biblical archaeology. Hoffmeier is a biblical maximalist and has often published works which defend the historicity of the Hebrew Bible.

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