Eric M. Meyers
Bernice and Morton Lerner Emeritus Professor in Judaic Studies
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Bernice and Morton Lerner Emeritus Professor in Judaic Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
- Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
Contact Information
- 230C Gray Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708-0964
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emc@duke.edu
(919) 660-3517
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www.duke.edu/religion
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Harvard University 1969
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Duke Appointment History
- Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1979 - 2015
- Director in the Center for Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2015
- Director in The Center for Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012 - 2013
- Director, Judaic Studies, Judaic Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2011
- Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Center for Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010
- Associate Professor with Tenure, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1971 - 1979
- Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1969 - 1971
- Recognition
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In the News
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OCT 14, 2013 The Christian Science Monitor
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Awards & Honors
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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Research
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Teaching
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- Research
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Selected Grants
- Aramaic in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2003 - 2004
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
- Meyers, EM, Meyers, CL, Balouka, M, and de Vincenz, A. The Pottery from Ancient Sepphoris. Edited by EM Meyers and CL Meyers. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, January 1, 2013. (Edited Book)
- Meyers, CL, and Meyers, EM. Excavations at Ancient Nabratein: Synagogue and Environs. Eisenbrauns for the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2009. (Monograph)
- Bailey, C. The Cambridge companion to the piano. 2000. Full Text Link to Item
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Academic Articles
- Davies, J. "Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity, History of Religions." (2003). (Review)
- Meyers, EM. "The Synagogue of Ancient Ostia and the Jews of Rome: Interdisciplinary Studies." BASOR (2003). (Review)
- Meyers, EM. "Highlands of Many Cultures: The Southern Samaria Survey B The Sites." Scholar’s Bookshelf: BAR 26 (2003): 3-62. (Review)
- Meyers, EM, Bienkowski, P, and Millard, A. "Dictionary of the Ancient Near East." American Journal of Archaeology 105, no. 1 (January 2001): 105-105. Full Text
- Meyers, EM, Meyers, CL, and Dessel, JP. "Report on the 2000 season at Tell )Ein Zippori." Israel Exploration Journal 51 (2001): 99-104. (Academic Article)
- Donfried, KP, and Richardson, P. "Judaism and Christianity in First Century Rome." American Journal of Archaeology 104 (2000): 39-40. (Review)
- Levine, LI, and ed, . "Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam." Church History (2000). (Review)
- Levine, LI. "The Ancient Synagogue." Journal of Roman Archaeology: “The Ancient Synagogue Revisited” (2000): 683-685. (Review)
- Meyers, EM, and Chancey, M. "How Jewish was Sepphoris in Jesus’ Time?." Biblical Archaeology Review 26 (2000): 18-61. (Academic Article)
- Meyers, EM. "The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-cultural Continuity and Change." Scholar’s Bookshelf: BAR 26 (2000). (Review)
- Meyers, EM. "The Pools of Sepphoris - Ritual Baths or Bathtubs?." Biblical Archaeology Review 26 (2000): 46-61.
- Williams, MH. "The Jews Among the Greeks and Romans." American Journal of Archaaeology 104 (2000): 39-39. (Review)
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Book Sections
- Meyers, EM, and Meyers, C. "New Translation with Brief Introductions to the Books of Haggai and Zechariah." In The New Catholic Bible. 2003.
- Meyers, EM. "Jesus and His World. Sepphoris and the Quest for the Historical Jesus." In Saxa loquentur, edited by CGD Hertog, U Hübner, and S Münger, 185-197. Geburtstag (Alter Orient und Altes Testament), Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2003.
- Meyers, EM. "Haggai, Zechariah." In The New Interpreter’s Study Bible. Abingdon Press: Nashville, 2003.
- Meyers, EM. "The Problems of Gendered Space in Syro-Palestinian Domestic Architecture: The Case of Roman-period Galilee." In Proceedings from conference on The Early Christian Family, edited by D Balch and C Osiek, 38-51. Wm. B. Erdmans Publishing Co., 2003.
- Meyers, EM. "The Rise of early Judaism and Early Christianity in the Light of Archaeology with Special Reference to the Dead Sea Scrolls." In ASOR Centennial at The Smithsonian, edited by D Clark. ASOR Publications, 2003.
- Meyers, EM. "Jewish Art and Architecture in Ancient Palestine (70-235 CE)." In The Cambridge History of Judaism, edited by S Katz. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Meyers, EM. "Archaeology and Nationalism in Israel: Making the Past Part of the Present." In Zeichen aus Text und Stein: Studien auf dem Weg zu einer Archäeologie des Neuen Testaments, edited by S Alkier and J Zangenberg. Tübingen, 2003.
- Meyers, EM. "The Ceramic Incense Shovels from Sepphoris: Another View." In Festschrift for Amichai Mazar, edited by A Maeir and PD Miroschedji. 2003.
- Meyers, EM. "Aspects of Everyday Life in Roman Palestine with Special Reference to Private Domiciles and Ritual Baths." In Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities, edited by J Bartlett, 193-219. Routledge Ltd., 2002.
- Meyers, EM. "Sepphoris: City of Peace." In The First Jewish Revolt: Archaeology, History, and Ideaology, edited by AM Berlin and JA Overman, 110-120. Routledge, 2002.
- Meyers, EM, Seger, JD, and al, E. "An ASOR Mosaic: A Centennial History of the American Schools of Oriental Research." In ASOR Centennial Vol, 3-24. ASOR Publications, 2001.
- Meyers, EM, and Meyers, CL. "Sepphoris; Diocaesarea." In Dictionary of Archaeology, edited by S Gibson, 454-56. 2001.
- Meyers, EM. "Jewish Culture in Greco-Roman Palestine." In Cultures of the Jews: A New History, edited by D Biale, 138-79. Random House/Shocken, 2001.
- Meyers, EM. "From the Maccabees to the Dead Sea Scrolls." In Reclaiming Jewish History, The Proceedings of Colloquium 1997, 97-124. The Society for Humanistic Judaism, Farmington Hills, MI. and Milan Press, 2001.
- Meyers, EM. "The Dating of the Gush Halav Synagogue: ’Response to Jodi Magness’." In Judaism in Late Antiquity, part 3, vol. 4, Where we stand: Issues and Debates in Ancient Judaism, edited by Avery-Peck and J Neusner, 49-70. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000.
- Meyers, EM. "Galilëa, Herodeion." In Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 455-1675. Vierte Auflage, 2000.
- Meyers, EM. "Caesarea, Chorazin." In Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2677 and 2931-2677 and 2931. Vierte Auflage, 2000.
- Meyers, EM. "Ceramics Chronology and Historical Reconstruction." In The Archaeology of Jordan and Beyond, edited by JAS Festschrift, LE Stager, JH Greene, and MD Coogan, 344-51. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2000.
- Meyers, EM. "Shelomith 2." In Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, Apocrypha, and New Testament, edited by CL Meyers and E al, 154-5. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
- Meyers, EM. "The American Schools of Oriental Research." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, 20-22. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Conference Papers
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