In 1991, Sasson was appointed to the prestigious William R.

Sasson taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, moving up the rank and becoming a full professor of Religious Studies in 1977. He went on to earn his doctorate in Ancient Near Eastern Studies in 1966, writing his dissertation under Cyrus Gordon.

At Brandeis, he focused first on Islamic Studies, earning an M.A. Immediately after completing his undergraduate education, Sasson accepted a scholarship to pursue his graduate studies at Brandeis University. in history in 1962 from Brooklyn College. In the United States, Sasson enrolled in Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, New York, and then Brooklyn College, which later became a constituent school of the City University of New York college system. His research focuses primarily on Assyriology and Hebrew Scriptures, writing on the archives from eighteenth century BCE found at Mari, Syria, by the Euphrates, near the modern-day Syria-Iraq border as well as on biblical studies.īorn in Aleppo, Syria, on October 1, 1941, Sasson immigrated to the United States in 1955 after a significant stay in Lebanon where he attended the Alliance Israélite Universelle schools. From 1977 to 1999, he was a professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Sasson (born 1941) is the Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Emeritus and previously Professor of Classics at Vanderbilt University. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill President of the International Association for AssyriologyĪbraham Lincoln High School, Brooklyn College President of the American Oriental Society , Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt Divinity School

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