Peter Machinist
Hancock Research Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages
Harvard Divinity School
45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
- Ancient Near East, especially Mesopotamia and the Levant, centering on Israel and Judah
- 2nd and 1st millennia BCE
- Areas of Expertise: comparative study of cultures; the history of Assyria; Hebrew Bible and the history of Israel and Judah; imperialism and its discontents; myth