Sasson, Jack M.
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Fuller Name
- Jack Murad
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Birth Date
- 1941-10-01
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- Affiliation End: 1999
- Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1999
- Affiliation End: 2015
- Organization: Vanderbilt University. Divinity School
Birth Place
- Aleppo (Syria)
Associated Language
- English
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- found: His The military establishments at Mari, 1969.
- found: Directory of American scholars, 2002:v. 1 (Sasson, Jack Murad; b. Oct. 1, 1941, Aleppo, Syria; professor of religion, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1966-1991; professor of Judaic and Biblical studies, Divinity School, Vanderbilt University; fields of study: Assyriology, Hebrew scripture)
- found: From Mari to Jerusalem, 2020:ECIP title page (Jack Murad Sasson) preface (Jack M. Sasson; Born in Aleppo in 1941 to Iraqi and Syrian Jewish parents and raised during his middle childhood years in Beirut, he joined his family and kin in Brooklyn in 1955 for the start of his long residence in the United States. He completed the B.A. degree at Brooklyn College in 1962 and his Ph.D. in ancient Near Eastern and Islamic studies at Brandeis University in 1966. His career as a scholar took him to the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where he became the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Religious Studies and remained until 1999 when he moved to Vanderbilt University as the Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible, retiring in 2015)
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- 1982-09-15: new
- 2020-01-17: revised
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