Ziony Zevit

Ziony Zevit
Born	February 1942 (age 82)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Biblical academic
Title	Professor of Biblical Literature and Northwest Semitic Languages
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada, 1994
Academic background
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
Academic work
Discipline	Biblical literature
Sub discipline	Northwest Semitic languages
Institutions	American Jewish University
Notable ideas	"Adam’s rib" was really his baculum

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

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. Zevit's article published in Biblical Archaeology Review in 2015 presents the same theory and attracted certain public attention.

External links

• Biography at American Jewish University