Jo Ann Hackett
Jo Ann Hackett | |
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| Born | August 14, 1949 Louisville, Kentucky, USA |
| Nationality | American |
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Jo Ann Hackett (born August 14, 1949) is an American scholar of the
Punic, and Aramaic
.
Early life and education
Hackett was born in
Religious Studies from Indiana University, 1975; and her Ph.D in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University
, 1980.
Career
Hackett began her teaching career as an assistant professor of
Cambridge, MA
.
Scholarship
Hackett's first book presented a philological analysis of a long ancient
American Schools of Oriental Research
, and as an editor of the series Harvard Semitic Studies and of several academic journals.
Honors and awards
In 1996–97, Hackett was the Hugh Pilkington Research Fellow in
Biblical Studies at Christ Church, Oxford University. In 2002, she was a Fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies. In 2006, she received the Everett S. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard University.[9] She was presented with a Festschrift in 2015, Epigraphy, Philology, and the Hebrew Bible: Methodological Perspectives on Philological and Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Jo Ann Hackett[10] included contributions from Gary A. Rendsburg and F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp. In 2016 she was inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars.[11]
References
- ^ The Balaam Text from Deir Alla (Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1984).
- ^ An Eye for Form: Paleographic Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross. Co-editor with Walter Aufrecht (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2014).
- ^ A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers; 2nd printing, October 2010).
- ^ “In the Days of Jael: Reclaiming the History of Women in Ancient Israel,” Immaculate and Powerful: The Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality, Clarissa Atkinson, Constance Buchanan, and Margaret Miles, ed. (Boston: Beacon, 1985) 15–38;
- ^ “Rehabilitating Hagar: Fragments of an Epic Pattern,” Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel, Peggy Day, ed. (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1989) 12–27
- ^ “Can a Sexist Model Liberate Us? Ancient Near Eastern ‘Fertility’ Goddesses,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 5 (1989): 65–76
- ^ The HarperCollins Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version (New York: HarperCollins, 1993).
- ^ "1st and 2nd Samuel," Women’s Bible Commentary (20th-anniversary edition; Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2012) 150–163.
- ^ "Previous Recipients of the Everett S. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award"
- ^ Epigraphy, Philology, and the Hebrew Bible: Methodological Perspectives on Philological and Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Jo Ann Hackett, edited by Jeremy M. Hutton and Aaron D. Rubin (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015).
- ^ "Johns Hopkins inducts 16 new members into Society of Scholars" April 12, 2016
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