58:(Philadelphia; merged with the University of Pennsylvania in 1993; renamed the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in 2008), where he earned a PhD degree in ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literatures in 1976; his dissertation is titled "The Place-Names in the Mari Texts: An Onomastic and Toponymic Study," supervised by Nahum M. Waldman, Theodor H. Gaster, and Hayim M. I. Gevaryahu (Jack M. Sasson, external reader). Beitzel also studied Semitic Linguistics at Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, 1969–72) and General Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1973). He obtained a post-doctorate in ancient Near Eastern Geography at
118:. He has contributed chapters to numerous monographs as well as essays in the Festschriften of Cyrus H. Gordon (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Verlag Butzon & Bercker Kevelaer, 1973); William Sanford LaSor (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978); Gleason L. Archer (Chicago: Moody Press, 1986); Michael C. Astour (Bethesda: CDL Press, 1992); and K. Lawson Younger, Jr. (München: Zaphon, 2022). He served as senior translator for the New Living Translation, the Historical Books (Tyndale Charitable Trust, 1996; 2004); and he is a former president of the American Oriental Society, Middle West region.
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arteries and unpaved thoroughfares across the ancient Near East, more recently focusing on the structure and location of ancient roadways and milestones in the southern Levant east of the Jordan River (corresponding mostly with the modern country of Jordan); he also spent one season in eastern Syria, with the UCLA team excavating the site of Tell Ashara (ancient Terqa, 1980), where he was also a member of
Giorgio Buccellati's geographical team surveying the terrain and searching for undiscovered ancient sites in the Middle Euphrates and Lower Habur River valleys.
292:* Translated into seven foreign language editions: Dutch (2012), Italian (2012), German (2013), Korean (2015), Spanish (2017), Portuguese (2017), and (to be released in 2024) Chinese. * Winner, 2010 Evangelical Christian Publishers Gold Medallion Book Award for the "Bible Reference and Study" category. * "2010 Best in Category" in the Book/Atlas category at the 37th Annual Map Design Competition sponsored by the Cartographic and Geographic Information Systems of the Association of American Geographers.
46:(TEDS; Deerfield, Illinois) since 1976, as Assistant Professor (1976-1980), Associate Professor (1980-1985; tenured 1983), Professor (1985–2016), and Professor Emeritus (2016 to the present). He served as Associate Academic Dean between the years 1986–1996 and as Executive Vice-President/Provost throughout 1996–2004. Dr. Beitzel is married to his wife Carol (née Watson); together they have three children (Bradley Jay , Bryan Kent , Kelly Melinda ) and ten grandchildren.
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most recently in the following issues: 189.4 (April, 1996, ); 214.6 (December, 2008, p. 43); 218.6 (December, 2010, p. 74 ); 221.3 (March, 2012, p. 51); and 232.6 (December, 2017, pp. 48–50, 57 ).
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