Gary A. Rendsburg

Gary A. Rendsburg serves as the Blanche and Irving Laurie Chair of Jewish History in the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of seven books and about 170 articles. His most recent book is How the Bible Is Written (Hendrickson), and one of his best known works is The Bible and the Ancient Near East, coauthored with Cyrus Gordon. In addition, he has produced two courses for the Teaching Company–Great Courses program, one on “The Book of Genesis” and the other on “The Dead Sea Scrolls.” Rendsburg’s published works utilizing chiasmus include The Redaction of Genesis (Eisenbrauns) and the article, “Redactional Structuring in the Joseph Story: Genesis 37–50,” in Mappings of the Biblical Terrain: The Bible as Text (Bucknell University Press).