Jeffrey Howard Tigay (born December 25, 1941) is a modern

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scholar who is best known for the study of

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and in his contributions to the Deuteronomy volume of the ''JPS Torah Commentary'' (1996).

Biography

Jeffrey H. Tigay was born in Detroit in 1941. Educated at

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and gaining his B.A. in 1963, he continued toward rabbinic ordination at the

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(M.H.L., 1966). He earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies from

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. Tigay taught in the Jewish Studies program at the

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from 1971 until his retirement in 2010, and is currently the A.M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures, Emeritus.

Works

*''Literary-Critical Studies in the Gilgamesh Epic: an Assyriological contribution to Biblical literary criticism'' (Yale University Press, 1971) *''The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982) *''Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985) *''You Shall Have No Other Gods. Israelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Inscriptions'' (Harvard Semitic Studies/Scholars Press, 1986) *''Studies in Midrash and related literature'' co-authored with Judah Goldin, Barry L. Eichler (Jewish Publication Society, 1988) *''Deuteronomy (Devarim): the traditional Hebrew text with the new JPS translation'' (Jewish Publication Society, 1996) *''Tehillah le-Moshe: Biblical and Judaic studies in honor of Moshe Greenberg'' co-authored with Moshe Greenberg, Mordechai Cogan, Barry L. Eichler (Eisenbrauns, 1997)

References

External links

Jeffrey H. Tigay's faculty profile
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