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Samuel Greengus
Director of the School of Graduate Studies;
Julian Morgenstern Professor of Bible and Near Eastern Literature and Professor of Semitic Languages
Dr. Greengus is the Julian Morgenstern Professor of Bible and Near Eastern Literature and Professor of Semitic Languages at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati. He earned an M.A. in Judaic Studies and a Ph.D. in Assyriology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. He has been teaching in Cincinnati since 1963. He has also served as Dean of the Rabbinical School, (1979-84) Director of the School of Graduate Studies(1985-90), and Vice-President for Academic Affairs(1990-96). His specialties, in addition to Semitic languages, are Bible, Rabbinics and Ancient History.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Chicago (1963)
Lecture Titles
- "A Slap in the Face" -- Perceptions of Personal Dignity in Biblical Times
- Take a Look at Us Then. Marriage and Family in Biblical and Early Rabbinic Judaism.
- Unsolved Homicide--What Should be the Community Response? A Look at Deut. 21:1-9 and other Ancient responses
- Same Time Next Year. The Story of the Jewish Calendar.
- Biblical and Early Rabbinic Views On Life After Death.
- The Relationionship between God and Nature In biblical and later Judaism.
- Predicting the Future. An Uncertain Science Today and in Biblical times
Recent Publications
- "Biblical and Mesopotamian Law: An Amorite Connection?" Daily Life in the Ancient Near East, R. Averbeck and D.W.
Weisberg, ed., CDL Press, Baltimore, (in press).
- "Redefining 'Inchoate Marriage' in Old Babylonian Contexts" in Studies in the Ancient Near East in Memory of Thorkild
Jacobsen, (ed. T. Abusch: Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002) 121-137.
- "New Evidence on the Old Babylonian Calendar and Real Estate Documents from Sippar," Journal of the American Oriental Society
121 (2001): 257-267.
- "The Selling of Slaves: Laws Missing from the Hebrew Bible" Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und
Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 3 (1997) 1-11.
- "Legal and Social Institutions of Ancient Mesopotamia," in Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, vol. 1 (ed. Jack
Sasson, et al, Scribners, New York,1995) 469-484.
- "Some Issues Relating to the Comparability of Laws and the Coherence of the Legal Tradition," Theory and Method in Biblical and
Cuneiform Law, Bernard M. Levinson (ed..), Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 181, Sheffield
Academic Press, Sheffield, England (1994) 60-87.
- "Law, Biblical and Ancient Near East," Anchor Bible Dictionary, Vol. IV (1992) 242-252.
- "Filling Gaps: Laws Found in Babylonia and in the Mishna but Absent in the Hebrew Bible," MAARAV 7 (Gevirtz Memorial
Volume) (1991), 149-171.
- "Bridewealth in Sumerian Sources," Hebrew Union College Annual LXI (1990) 25-88.
- "Israelite Criminal Law," The Encyclopedia of Religion, M. Eliade (ed.), MacMillan, New York (1987) Vol. 7, 475-478.
Electronic Publications
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