Ehud Ben Zvi

Ehud Ben Zvi is a professor (emeritus) in the dept. of History & Classics at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has authored, edited and co-edited about thirty-five volumes and written numerous essays primarily on ancient Israel, its intellectual history, social memory, historiography, and prophetic books. He explores the ways in which ancient Israelites construed their past and the significance of these images of the past for them. His recent work has focused, though not exclusively, in matters of Social Memory in late Persian/early Hellenistic Israel.

He serves as the president of the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS) and as a Member of Council at the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). He has served as president of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (CSBS), head of the International Cooperation Initiative (ICI) of the SBL, president of the Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature and was the founding editor of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures and the founding co-editor of the SBL series Ancient Near East Monographs (ANEM/MACO), both open access. He has organized, chaired and co-chaired numerous research groups.