Yair Hoffman is
a Full Professor at the Department of Bible, TAU and the Chairman of the
Department of Bible at Seminar Hakibuzim College, Tel-Aviv. Born in
Tel-Aviv (1937). He graduated (1962 Bible and Hebrew Literature),
completed his MA (thesis: 'Edom in the Prophetic Literature,'1967) and his
Ph.D. (1974, thesis: 'The Prophecies on Foreign Nations in the Hebrew
Bible'). Since 1967 he is teaching mainly at TAU.
Yair Hoffman was Chairman of the Department of Judaism at Beth-Berl
College (1973-1975); Chairman of the Department of Bible, TAU (1982-1985;
1990-1991) and Chairman of the Program for BA General, the Faculty of
Humanities TAU (1988-1989). He was a Visiting Researcher, in the
Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley (1980); Visiting
Professor in the Department of Hebrew Studies, UW Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(1986), 1993- Visiting Professor, Department of Theology, University of
Calgary, Alberta, (1993). Professor Hoffman is married + 3 daughters.
*Selected Books*
1.The Prophecies Against Foreign Nations in the Bible [Heb.] (Tel-Aviv:
TAU School of Jewish Studies and Am-Oved, 1971)
2. The Doctrine of the Exodus in the Bible, [Heb.] (Tel-Aviv:
TAU School of Jewish Studies and University Publishing Projects,
1983)
3. The Book of Jeremiah, Olam Hatanach vol. 11 [Heb.] (Ramat-Gan:
Revivim, 1983)
4. The Book of Isaiah Olam Hatanch vol. 10 [Heb.] (Ramat-Gan:
Revivim, 1986)
5. A Blemished Perfection: The Book of Job in Context (Sheffield:
JSOT Supplement Series 213, 1996)
*Selected English Articles*
1. Did Amos Regard himself as a Nabi? Vetus Testamentum 27 (1977),
209-212
2. On Jeremiah 2:30, Zeitschrift fr die altestamentliche Wissenschaft
89 (1977) 209-212
3. The Use of Equivocal Words in the First Speech of Eliphaz,
Vetus Testamentum 30 (1980), 114- 119
4. Y. Hoffman, The Day of The Lord as a Concept and a Term, Zeitschrift
für die altestamentliche Wissenschaft 93 (1981), 37-50
5. Y. Hoffman, The Relations Between The Prologue and the Speech-Cycles
in the Book of Job, Vetus Testamentum 31 (1981),160-170
6. Y. Hoffman, From Oracle to Prophecy: The Growth, Crystallization
and Disintegration of a Biblical Gattung, Journal of Northwest
Semitic Languages 10 (1983), 75-81
7. Y. Hoffman, A North Israelite Typological Myth and a Judaean
Historical Tradition: The Exodus in Hosea and Amos, Vetus Testamentum
39 (1989) 169-182
8. Y. Hoffman, Ancient Near Eastern Literary Conventions as Guides
to the Restoration of the Book of Job, Zeitschrift für die altestamentliche
Wissenschaft 103 (1991) 399-411
9. Y. Hoffman, The Creativity of Theodicy, in: Justice and Righteousness,
ed. H.Graf Reventlow-Y.Hoffman JSOT Supplement Series 137 (Sheffield:
Sheffield Academic Press 1992) 117-130
10. Y. Hoffman, Reflections on the Relationship Between Theopolitics,
Prophecy and Historiography, in: Politics and Theopolitics in
the Bible, JSOT Supplement Series 171 editors: H. Graf Reventlow
and Y. Hoffman (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press
11. Y. Hoffman, The Concept of Other Gods in Deuteronomistic Writings,
Israel Oriental Studies 14 (1994) 103-118)
12. Y. Hoffman, Isn't The Bride Too Beautiful? JSOT 63 (1994)
103-119
13. Y. Hoffman, The Deuteronomist and the Exile, Pomegranates
and golden Bells: Studies in Biblical Jewish and Near Eastern
Ritual, Law and Literature in Honor of J. Milgrom edited by :
D.P.Wright, D.N.Freedman, A.Hurvitz (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns
14. Y. Hoffman, Ethiology, Historicity and the Redaction of the
Book of Jeremiah, Vetus Testamentum 46 (1996) 179-189
Biblical Eschatology
Biblical Historiography
Biblical Prophecy
Biblical Wisdom Literature
Biblical Psalm Literature
Biblical Storytelling
The Book of Jeremiah
The Psalm Literature
Introduction to Modern Biblical Criticism
Introduction to Biblical Ideas
Modernism and Post-Modernism in Biblical Study
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