Gary A. Rendsburg holds the Blanche and Irving Laurie Chair in Jewish History in the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He is author or editor of numerous books, including The Bible and the Ancient Near East (Norton) and Israelian Hebrew in the Book of Kings (CDL). He has also produced two courses for The Teaching Company, one on a oeThe Book of Genesisa and one on a oeThe Dead Sea Scrolls.a