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Seth L. Sanders

14 works· latest 2026· 4 institutionscluster: provisional

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Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures2026 · 139 citations
Cuneiform in Canaan: Cuneiform Sources from the Land of Israel in Ancient Times2018 · 85 citations
What Was the Alphabet For? The Rise of Written Vernaculars and the Making of Israelite National Literature2004 · 44 citations
From Adapa to Enoch2017 · 43 citations
The Invention of Hebrew2009 · 38 citations

Works

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Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures

·2026·1 author·Open access

139citations

Cuneiform in Canaan: Cuneiform Sources from the Land of Israel in Ancient Times

·2018·3 authors

85citations

Enoch’s Imaginary Ancestor

Journal of ancient Judaism·2018·1 author

11citations

What if There Aren’t Any Empirical Models for Pentateuchal Criticism?

SBL Press eBooks·2017·1 author·chapter·Open access

31citations

From Adapa to Enoch

Mohr Siebeck eBooks·2017·1 author·book·Open access

43citations

Why Prophecy Became a Biblical Genre. First Isaiah as an Instance of Ancient Near Eastern Text-Building

Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel·2017·1 author

19citations

Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature

New York University Press eBooks·2016·1 author·book

37citations

4. “I Was Shown Another Calculation” (אחזי חשבזן אחרן): The Language of Knowledge in Aramaic Enoch and Priestly Hebrew

New York University Press eBooks·2016·1 author·chapter

11citations

When the Personal Became Political: An Onomastic Perspective on the Rise of Yahwism

Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel·2015·1 author

27citations

The Appetites of the Dead: West Semitic Linguistic and Ritual Aspects of the Katumuwa Stele

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research·2013·1 author

11citations

Naming the Dead: Funerary Writing and Historical Change in the Iron Age Levant

Maarav·2012·1 author

7citations

The Invention of Hebrew

·2009·1 author

38citations

Performative Utterances and Divine Language in Ugaritic

Journal of Near Eastern Studies·2004·1 author

12citations

What Was the Alphabet For? The Rise of Written Vernaculars and the Making of Israelite National Literature

Maarav·2004·1 author

44citations