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Harold W. Attridge

Dean of Yale University Divinity School & Lillian
Claus Professor of New Testament

harold.attridge@yale.edu
(203) 432-5304

A.B, Boston College
B.A., M.A., Cambridge University, Marshall Scholar
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D., Harvard University

Harold W. Attridge, Dean of Yale Divinity School and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament. Dean Attridge has made scholarly contributions to New Testament exegesis and to the study of Hellenistic Judaism and the history of the early Church. His publications include Hebrews: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews, First-Century Cynicism in the Epistles of Heraclitus, The Interpretation of Biblical History in the Antiquitates Judaicae of Flavius Josephus, and Nag Hammadi Codex I: The Jung Codex, as well as numerous book chapters and articles in scholarly journals. He has edited eleven books, most recently, with Margot Fassler, Psalms in Community. He has been an editorial board member of Catholic Biblical Quarterly, the Harvard Theological Review, the Journal of Biblical Literature, and the Hermeneia Commentary Series. He has been active in the Society of Biblical Literature and served as president of the society in 2001.

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BOOKS

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The Testament of Job
(with R. A. Kraft, et al., 1974).

The Syrian goddess (De Dea Syria) attributed to Lucian
(with R. Oden, 1976).

The Interpretation of Biblical History in the Antiquitates Judaicae of Flavis Josephus
(1976)

First-century Cynicism in the Epistles of Heraclitus
(1976)

Philo of Byblos, The Phoenician History
(with R. Oden, 1981)

Nag Hammadi Codex I (The Jung Codex)
(1985, Volume editor and contributor, Gospel of Truth, with George MacRae, and the Tripartite Tractate, with Elaine Pagles)

Hebrews: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews
(1989)