Jack M. Sasson
| Jack M. Sasson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 1, 1941 Aleppo, Syria |
| Nationality | Syrian, American |
| Occupation | Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt Divinity School |
| Board member of | president of the American Oriental Society , president of the International Association for Assyriology |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Abraham Lincoln High School, Brooklyn College |
| Alma mater | Brandeis University (Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Cyrus Gordon |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Jewish studies Biblical studies Middle eastern studies |
| Institutions |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Vanderbilt University |
| Main interests | Assyriology, Hebrew Scriptures |
| Notable works |
Judges 1-12 (AYB) Jonah (AYB) |
Jack M. Sasson, now retired, taught most recently as Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt Divinity School and before that as a Professor of Classics at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses primarily on Assyriology and Hebrew Scriptures, writing on the archives from eighteenth century BCE found at Mari, Syria, by the Euphrates, near the modern-day Syria-Iraq border as well as on biblical studies.
Born in Aleppo, Syria, on October 1, 1941, Sasson immigrated to the United States in 1955 after a significant stay in Lebanon where he attended the Alliance Israélite Universelle schools. In America, Sasson enrolled in Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, New York, and then Brooklyn College, which later became a constituent school of the City University of New York college system. He received his B.A. in history in 1962 from Brooklyn College.
Immediately after completing his undergraduate education, Sasson accepted a scholarship to pursue his graduate studies at Brandeis University. At Brandeis, he focused first on Islamic Studies, earning an M.A. in Mediterranean Studies in 1963. Eventually, however, he earned his doctorate in Ancient Near Eastern Studies in 1966, writing his dissertation under Cyrus Gordon.
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