Ziony Zevit Explained

Ziony Zevit
Birth Date:	February 13, 1942
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Biblical academic
Professor of Biblical Literature and Northwest Semitic Languages
Discipline:	Biblical literature
Sub Discipline:	Northwest Semitic languages
Education:	University of Southern California
Alma Mater:	University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)
Thesis Title:	Studies in Biblical Poetry and Vocabulary in Their Northwestern Semitic Setting
Thesis Year:	1973
Workplaces:	American Jewish University
Notable Ideas:	"Adam’s rib" was really his baculum
Awards:	Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada, 1994

Ziony Zevit (born February 13, 1942) is an American scholar of biblical literature and Northwest Semitic languages, and a professor at the American Jewish University.

Biography

Zevit received his B.A. degree from University of Southern CA in 1964, and Ph.D. degree from University of California, Berkeley in 1974. He joined the faculty of American Jewish University in 1974.

Zevit was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994.^[1]

In an article published in 2001, Scott F. Gilbert and Zevit argue that the Bible might be interpreted that Eve was not made from Adam’s rib, but his baculum; which would explain why humans don't have one.^[2] Zevit's article published in Biblical Archaeology Review in 2015 ^[3] presents the same theory and attracted certain public attention.^{[4] [5]}

Works

Books

• Book: Zevit, Ziony . The Structure and Individual Elements of Daniel 7 . A. Töpelmann . 1968 .
• Book: Zevit, Ziony. 3. Matres Lectionis in Ancient Hebrew Epigraphs . Monograph series - American Schools of Oriental Research . 2 . Sheffield . Sheffield Academic Press . 1980 . 978-0-8975-7402-0.
• Book: Zevit. Ziony. 3. Gitin. Seymour. Sokoloff. Michael . Solving Riddles and Untying Knots: Biblical Epigraphic and Semitic Studies in honor of Jonas C. Greenfield . London . Eisenbrauns . 1995 . 978-0-9314-6493-5 .
• Book: Zevit, Ziony. 3. The Anterior Construction in Classical Hebrew . Scholars Press . 1998 . 978-0-7885-0443-3 .
• Book: Zevit, Ziony. 3. The Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches . London . Continuum . 2001 . 978-0-8264-4728-9 .
• Book: Zevit. Ziony. 3. Naude. Cynthia Miller. Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew . London . Eisenbrauns . 2012 . 978-1-5750-6253-2 .
• Book: Zevit, Ziony . 3 . What Really Happened In the Garden of Eden? . New Haven, CT . Yale University Press . 2013 . 978-0-3001-7869-2 . registration .

Lectures

• Zevit. Ziony. 3. Bible Stories How Narratives Work and What They Reveal . Washington, DC . Biblical Archaeology Society . 2010 . 978-1-935335-50-4 .

Articles

• Zevit . Ziony . 3 . 1990 . Three Ways to Look at the Ten Plagues . . 6 . 3 .
• Zevit . Ziony . 3 . 2002 . Three Debates about Bible and Archaeology . . 83 . 1–27 .
• Gilbert . Scott F. . Scott F. Gilbert. Zevit . Ziony . 3 . Congenital human baculum deficiency: the generative bone of Genesis 2:21–23. . . 101 . 3 . 284–5 . 2001 . 10.1002/ajmg.1387 . 11424148 .
• Zevit . Ziony . 3 . 2015 . Was Eve Made from Adam's Rib—or His Baculum?. . 41 . 5 .

Thesis

• Zevit. Ziony. 3. Studies in Biblical Poetry and Vocabulary in Their Northwestern Semitic Setting . Ph.D. . Berkeley, CA . University of California . 1973 . 978-0-9314-6493-5 .

Literature about Ziony Levit

• Greenspahn, Frederick E., and Gary A. Rendsburg, eds. Le-maʿan Ziony: Essays in Honor of Ziony Zevit. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2017.

External links

• Biography at American Jewish University

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ziony Zevit. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 29 December 2015.
2. Gilbert . Scott F. . Scott F. Gilbert. Zevit . Ziony . Congenital human baculum deficiency: the generative bone of Genesis 2:21–23. . . 101 . 3 . 284–5 . Jul 2001 . 10.1002/ajmg.1387. 11424148 . 30 December 2015.
3. Zevit . Ziony . 2015 . Was Eve Made from Adam's Rib—or His Baculum?. . 41 . 5 .
4. News: God used Adam's penis to make Eve, says shock theory from Bible scholar. Daily Mirror. 28 December 2015. 29 December 2015.
5. News: Elon . Gilad. Why God Didn't Use Adam's Penis Bone to Make Eve. Haaretz. 29 December 2015. 30 December 2015.