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Guy Darshan joined the faculty of Tel Aviv University in 2015–16 as Senior Lecturer (tenure-track) in the department of Biblical Studies. He earned his academic degrees at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA, Bible and Classics 2002; MA, Bible 2006, both summa cum laude) and completed his Ph.D. in 2013 under the supervision of Prof. Alexander Rofé and Prof. Deborah Gera. He did his postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago in 2012–2013 and in 2015 he was a Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica in the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University.

Dr. Darshan has received several prestigious academic grants and awards, such as Nathan Rotenstreich doctoral fellowship, the 2013 Bernard M. Bloomfield Prize for his dissertation, the 2014 David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship by the Society of Biblical Literature, the 2015 Colton Young Scientist award, and Alon fellowship for outstanding young faculty by the Israeli Council for Higher Education.

Dr. Darshan is married to Dr. Noga Ayali-Darshan and a father of two daughters.

His research is devoted to the study of the formation of the biblical literature and the history of biblical thought and beliefs. He addresses these issues from philological and historical perspectives, including source, textual and form criticism as well as comparative study. His scientific publications cover two main fields: (1) the history of biblical literature and its genres in the context of early eastern Mediterranean writings; (2) the development of the biblical text, its various recensions and the canonization process.

His current projects include an English extended version of Stories of Origins in Biblical and Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Literature and a Commentary to 1 Maccabees for the Hermeneia series (Fortess press) together with Prof. Doron Mendels (Hebrew University).

Research and Teaching Interests: 

• Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern myth
• The composition of the Pentateuch
• History of the biblical literature
• Textual criticism
• Hellenistic Judaism

Books

• Guy Darshan, After the Flood: Stories of Origins in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Mediterranean Literature, 300pp. (The Biblical Encyclopaedia Library 35; Jerusalem: Bialik Institute) [Hebrew]

 Articles

• Guy Darshan, ‛The Long Additions in LXX 1Kings 2 (35a–k; 46a–l) and their Importance for the Question of the Literary History of 1Kings 1–11,’ Tarbiz 75 (2006), pp. 5–50 [Hebrew]

• Guy Darshan, ‛Twenty-Four or Twenty-Two Books of the Bible and the Homeric Corpus,’ Tarbiz 77 (2007), pp. 5–22 [Hebrew]

• Guy Darshan, ‘The Twenty-Four Books of the Hebrew Bible and Alexandrian Scribal Methods,’ in: M.R. Niehoff (ed.), Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters: Between Literary and Religious Concerns (JSRC 16; Leiden: Brill 2012), pp. 221–244

• Guy Darshan, ‘The Biblical Account of the Post-Diluvian Generation (Gen. 9:20-10:32) in the Light of Greek Genealogical Literature,’ Vetus Testamentum 63 (2013), 515–535

• Guy Darshan, ‘The Reinterment of Saul and Jonathan’s Bones (II Sam 21,12–14) in Light of Ancient Greek Hero-Cult Stories,’ Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 125,4 (2013), 640–645

• Guy Darshan, ‘The Story of the Sons of God and the Daughters of Men (Gen 6:1–4) and the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women,’ Shnaton, an Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies 23 (2014), 155–178 [Hebrew]

• Guy Darshan, ‘The Origins of the Foundation Stories Genre in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Eastern Mediterranean,’ Journal of Biblical Literature 133, 4 (2014), 689–709 (Winner of the 2014 David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship by the Society of Biblical Literature)

• Guy Darshan, ‘The Calendrical Framework of the Priestly Flood Story in Light of an Akkadian Text from Ugarit (RS 94.2953),’ Journal of the American Oriental Society 136.3 (2016), 507–514

• Guy Darshan, ‘The Meaning of ברא (Ez 21,24) and the Prophecy Concerning Nebuchadnezzar at the Crossroads (Ez 21,23–29 [18–24]),’ Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 128 (2016), 83–95

• Guy Darshan, ‘The Casuistic Priestly Law in Ancient Mediterranean Context: The History of the Genre and its Sitz im Leben,’ Harvard Theological Review (forthcoming)