John Van Seters

John Van Seters (born Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2 May 1935) is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Ancient Near East. Currently University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, he was formerly James A. Gray Professor of Biblical Literature at UNC. He took his PhD at Yale University in Near Eastern Studies (1965) and a ThD h.c. from the University of Lausanne (1999). His honours and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH fellowship, an ACLS fellowship, and research fellowships at Oxford, Cambridge, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and National Research Fund of South Africa. His many publications include "The Hyksos, A New Investigation" (1966); Abraham in History and Tradition (1975); "In Search of History" (1983, for which he won the James H. Breasted Prize and the American Academy of Religion book award); "The Edited Bible" (2006); and "The Biblical Saga of King David" (2009). "Changing Perspectives I: Studies in the History, Literature and Religion of Biblical Israel", a collection of articles from 1964 onwards with an introduction by Thomas L. Thompson, will appear in mid-2011.