"Who Wrote the Exodus Story?"
Richard Elliott Friedman, author of Who Wrote the Bible?
Thursday, March 14, 5:15 p.m.

Harvard Semitic Museum 201
6 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138

A light, kosher reception will follow the talk. Free and open to the
public. Sponsored by the Hebrew Bible Workshop, a graduate student
workshop. Contact: efredric@fas.harvard.edu.

Richard Elliott Friedman earned his doctorate at Harvard in Hebrew
Bible. He was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge and Oxford and a Senior
Fellow of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. He
participated in the City of David Project archaeological excavations
of biblical Jerusalem. He is now the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of
Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia and is the Katzin
Professor of Jewish Civilization Emeritus of the University of
California, San Diego.

His books have been translated into Hebrew, German, Italian, Spanish,
Russian, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Portuguese, Czech,
Turkish, Korean, and French. Who Wrote the Bible? has sold over
250,000 copies, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, a New York
Times Editors’ selection, and was the subject of a three-hour
television special. The Disappearance of God (published in paperback
as The Hidden Face of God) was named among the “Best Books of 1995” by
Publishers Weekly. The Hidden Book in the Bible was named among the
“Best Books of 1998” by Publishers Weekly. It was a selection of the
Book-of-the-Month Club, History Book Club, Quality Paperbacks Book
Club, and Jewish Book Club. His Commentary on the Torah, with his new
translation of the Five Books of Moses, was named among Commentary
Magazine Best Jewish Books of 2001. His The Bible with Sources
Revealed was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist of 2005.

He has been interviewed by CNN’s Larry King and on NPR’s “All Things
Considered,” “Morning Edition,” “Radio Times,” and “Talk of the
Nation” by Robert Siegal, Ray Suarez and Derek McGinty. Articles and
citations of his work have appeared in the Washington Post, Los
Angeles Times,New York Times, Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World
Report, Time, New York Daily News, Newsweek, Commentary, Commonweal,
The Atlantic Monthly, The Forward, Moment, The Jerusalem Post, Maariv
and Haaretz.