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February 13, 1951 (age 66) ( 1951-02-13 ) Egypt Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Israel in Egypt: The Evidence, The Archaeology of the Bible, Ancient Israel in Sinai, The Immigration Crisis: Im, Akhenaten and the Origins of
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James K. Hoffmeier (born February 13, 1951 in Egypt) is an American Old Testament scholar. He is Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
Hoffmeier has degrees from Wheaton College and a PhD, University of Toronto.
He specialises in issues of Old Testament historicity and archaeology.
During the period from 1975 to 1977 he worked on the Akhenaten Temple Project based in Luxor. He has been the Professor of Archaeology and Old Testament at Wheaton College. He was director of excavations at Tell el-Borg, Sinai from 1998 to 2008. Additionally he is often called upon to consultant for television programs made for the History, Discovery, Learning and National Geographic Channels.
Hoffmeier, James K.; Williams, Ronald J.; Meltzer, E. S., eds. (1983). Egyptological Miscellanies: a tribute to Professor Ronald J. Williams. Ancient World. 6. Chicago, IL: Ares. OCLC 64103388.
——— (1985). Sacred in the Vocabulary of Ancient Egypt: the term DSR, with special reference to dynasties I-XX. Orbis biblicus et orientalis. 59. Freiburg, Switzerland ; Göttingen: Universitätsverlag ; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 978-3-7278-0324-6. OCLC 12171356.
———, ed. (1987). Abortion: a Christian understanding and response. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House. ISBN 978-0-801-04317-8. OCLC 16661376.
———; Douglas, J. D., eds. (1991). New Commentary on the Whole Bible: based on the classic commentary of Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown (Old Testament volume) (Revised and reworked ed.). Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers. ISBN 978-0-842-34739-6. OCLC 22956578.
———; Millard, A. R.; Baker, David W., eds. (1994). Faith, tradition, and history : Old Testament historiography in its Near Eastern context. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. ISBN 978-0-9314-6482-9. OCLC 29877702.
——— (1996). Israel in Egypt: the evidence for the authenticity of the Exodus tradition. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-195-09715-3. OCLC 35068244.
——— (1999). Barrett, David P., ed. The Books of the Old Testament. Quiknotes. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House. ISBN 978-0-8423-5983-2. OCLC 33079242.
———; Millard, A. R., eds. (2004). The Future of Biblical Archaeology: reassessing methodologies and assumptions. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-802-82173-7. OCLC 612468568.
——— (2005). Ancient Israel in Sinai: the evidence for the authenticity of the wilderness tradition. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-195-15546-4. OCLC 56526680.
——— (2008). The Archaeology of the Bible (1st ed.). Oxford: Lion. ISBN 978-0-745-95226-0. OCLC 181069121.
——— (2009). The Immigration Crisis: immigrants, aliens and the Bible. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books. ISBN 978-1-433-50607-9. OCLC 262891620.
———; Magary, Dennis Robert, eds. (2012). Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?: a critical appraisal of modern and postmodern approaches to Scripture. Wheaton, IL: Crossway. ISBN 978-1-433-52571-1. OCLC 730405288.
———, ed. (2014). Tell el-Borg I: Excavations in North Sinai: the "Dwelling of the Lion" on the ways of Horus. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. ISBN 978-1-575-06305-8. OCLC 890755746.
——— (2015). Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-199-79208-5. OCLC 883510631.
———; Wenham, Gordon J.; Sparks, Kenton L. (2015). Halton, Charles, ed. Genesis : history, fiction, or neither? : three views on the Bible's earliest chapters. Counterpoints. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. ISBN 978-0-310-51494-7. OCLC 898750289.
Articles and chapters
——— (1997). "The Evangelical Contribution to Understanding the (Early) History of Ancient Israel in Recent Scholarship". Bulletin for Biblical Research. 7: 77–90.
——— (Spring 2000). "'The Heavens Declare the Glory of God': the limits of general revelation". Trinity Journal. 21 (1): 17–24.
——— (Jan 2007). "Out of Egypt". Biblical Archaeology Review. 33 (1): 36–?.
——— (June 2007). "What is the Biblical Date for the Exodus? A Response to Bryant Wood". Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. 50 (2): 225–47.
——— (Fall 2007). "Rameses of the Exodus Narratives is the 13th Century BC Royal Ramesside Residence". Trinity Journal. 28 (2): 281–289.
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