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Place of Birth: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
About John Van Seters
- John Van Seters (born May 2, 1935 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian scholar of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Ancient Near East.
- Currently University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, he was formerly James A.
- Gray Professor of Biblical Literature at UNC.
- He took his PhD at Yale University in Near Eastern Studies (1965) and a ThD h.c.
- from the University of Lausanne (1999).
- His honours and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH fellowship, an ACLS Fellowship, and research fellowships at Oxford, Cambridge, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and National Research Foundation of South Africa.
- His many publications include The Hyksos: A New Investigation (1966); Abraham in History and Tradition (1975); In Search of History (1983, for which he won the James H.
- Breasted Prize and the American Academy of Religion book award); The Edited Bible (2006); and The Biblical Saga of King David (2009).
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