Andrew Mayes, Professor of Hebrew (part-time)

My research interests are in Hebrew Bible, ancient Israelite history and religion, and methodology in historical reconstruction and religious understanding. I have written a number of books, book chapters and articles in these areas, with a particular focus on Deuteronomy and associated literature, Israelite origins and pre-monarchic history, and sociological approaches to ancient Israelite history and religion. A more recent area of interest has been Egypt as an ideological construct in the Hebrew Bible, and the relationship between Israel and Egypt in history, literature and religion. I teach a final year undergraduate course on this topic, and have published a number of specialist studies; a book is in preparation.

Selected Publications

Israel in the Period of the Judges.
The Story of Israel between Settlement and Exile.
Judges
The Old Testament in Sociological Perspective.
Text in Context (ed.).
Covenant as Context (ed.)

Teaching

SF, Introduction to Hebrew
SF/JS, Election & Covenant/Kingship in Israel
SF/JS, Prophecy in Israel
SS, Advanced Hebrew
SS, Israel and Egypt