W. Randall Garr
About:
W. Randall Garr is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
Publications:
- Handbook of Biblical Hebrew, with Steven Fassberg (under development)
- Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine, 1000-586 B.C.E. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985; reprinted, Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2004)
- In His Image and Likeness: Humanity, Divinity and Monotheism, (Civilizations and History of the Ancient Near East 15; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003)
- An Index of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vols. 1-55 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003)
Articles:
- “Abraham’s Election in Faith.” (f.c.)
- “Ruth 2:7.” In Avi Hurvitz Festschrift, ed. Aharon Mamon and Steven E. Fassberg (Language Studies 11-12; Jerusalem: The Magnes Press / The Hebrew University, 2008), 25-34 (in Hebrew)
- “Necromancy and 1 Samuel 19:22.” In Sacred History, Sacred Literature: Essays on Ancient Israel, the Bible, and Religion in Honor of R. E. Friedman on His Sixtieth Birthday, ed. Shawna Dolansky (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2008), 23-31
- “The Paragogic nun in Rhetorical Perspective.” In Biblical Hebrew in Its Northwest Semitic Setting: Typological and Historical Perspectives, ed. Steven E. Fassberg and Avi Hurvitz (Jerusalem: The Magnes Press; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2006), 65-74
- “‘Image’ and ‘Likeness’ in the Inscription from Tell Fakhariyeh.” Israel Exploration Journal 50 (2000): 227-234
- “Driver’s Treatise and the Study of Hebrew: Then and Now.” In S. R. Driver, A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew (3rd ed.; 1892; reprinted, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998), xviii-lxxxvi
- “On Vowel Dissimilation in Hebrew.” Biblica 66 (1986): 572-579
Courses Taught:
- RS 17A-C: Biblical Hebrew
- RS 115A: Literature and Religion of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
- RS 129: Religions of the Ancient Near East
- RS 142A-C: Religious Literature in Hebrew
