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Professor Snell was named the L.J. Semrod Presidential
Professor in 2001 and is the author of many books, book
chapters, and articles. He is an Assyriologist, Ancient
Economic Historian, and Biblical Scholar who writes
both technical articles and accessible works like his
History Book Club selection, Life in the Ancient
Near East, 3100-332 B.C. and his recent edited
volume, A Companion to the Ancient Near East.
His work has received support from a number of fellowship
granting agencies, including the Mellon Foundation,
the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National
Humanities Center, the Oregon Humanities Center, and
two international foundations, the Humanities Research
Centre at Canberra and the Institute for Advanced Research
in the Humanities at Edinburgh. He is currently at work
on a study tentatively titled Religions of the Ancient
Near East that will cover the years from roughly
6000 BCE to 332 BCE. Professor Snell teaches courses
at all levels on subjects ranging from the history of
ancient Israel to a course on ancient Mesopotamia and
Egypt to an offering on slavery in world history. Recently,
he offered a course titled Religions of the Ancient
Near East. Snell received his Ph.D. from Yale University
in 1975.
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