Baruch Abraham Levine (July 10, 1930 – December 16, 2021) was the Skirball Professor Emeritus of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at

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. Levine was educated at

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and obtained his PhD at

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in 1962; he mainly wrote in the fields of biblical and Middle Eastern studies. In 1975, Levine was awarded a

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for Humanities, US & Canada. Levine contributed the Leviticus volume to the JPS Torah Commentary series and the

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volumes (1–20 and 21–36, with translation) to the

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series. In 1975 he published with James Bennett Pritchard ''The Israelites'', the 19th book in the Time-Life 20 vol. series ''The Emergence of Man''. He also wrote ''In the Presence of the Lord: A Study of Cult and Some Cultic Terms in Ancient Israel'' (Brill, 1997). Levine was president of the

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, the

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, and the Biblical Colloquium, and he also was a board member of the

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. Levine died in

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, on December 16, 2021, at the age of 91.

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