Baruch A. LevineBaruch Levine is the Skirball Professor Emeritus of Bible and Ancient
Near Eastern Studies at New York University . He has written
extensively in the field of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies.
Among his publications are commentares on Numbers 1-20 and Numbers 21-36 in The Anchor Bible Commentary , the commentary on Leviticus in Torah Commentary (1999), and In the Presence of the Lord
(1974). He is past president of the American Oriental Society, the
Association for Jewish Studies, and the Biblical Colloquium, and is a
former board member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis.
He holds a Ph.D. in Mediterranean Studies from Brandeis University and
earned a B.A. in comparative literature from Case Western Reserve
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