Gary A. Rendsburg

Gary A. Rendsburg
Gary Rendsburg is the Blanche and Irving Laurie Professor of Jewish History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He currently serves as chair of the Department of Jewish Studies and also has a joint appointment in the Department of History.

Dr. Rendsburg majored in English and journalism as an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina and graduated in 1975. He then pursued graduate work in Hebrew Studies at New York University and received his Ph.D. in 1980.

He previously taught at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY (1980-1986) and at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY (1986-2004).

Prof. Rendsburg’s areas of special interest include literary approaches to the Bible, the history of the Hebrew language, the history of ancient Israel, and the literature and culture of ancient Egypt.

Dr. Rendsburg has held a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship; and he has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, at Colgate University, at the State University of New York at Binghamton, and at the University of Sydney in Australia.

Prof. Rendsburg is a frequent guest of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where twice he has served as visiting research professor and twice he has held the position of visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies.

Dr. Rendsburg is the author of five books and over 100 scholarly articles. His most popular book is a general survey of the biblical world entitled The Bible and the Ancient Near East, co-authored with the late Cyrus H. Gordon (1997).

He has visited all the major archaeological sites in Israel, Egypt, and Jordan; and he has participated in excavations at Tel Dor and Caesarea.

Prof. Rendsburg is a frequent lecturer for the Biblical Archaeology Society, for universities and seminaries across the country, and at synagogues and other Jewish community venues as well.

For more information, including a complete list of publications, please see http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/faculty/grendsburg/.