Jack M. Sasson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jack M. Sasson

Syrian-American academic of Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1941

Place of Birth: Aleppo, Aleppo Governorate, Syria

Profession: anthropologist, assyriologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Jack M.
Sasson, now retired, taught most recently as Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt Divinity School and before that as a Professor of Classics at Vanderbilt University.
His research focuses primarily on Assyriology and Hebrew Scriptures, writing on the archives from eighteenth century BCE found at Mari, Syria, by the Euphrates, near the modern-day Syria-Iraq border as well as on biblical studies.