Richard Elliott Friedman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Richard Elliott Friedman

biblical scholar

Date of Birth: 05-May-1946

Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, United States

Profession: writer, Bible translator

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Richard Elliott Friedman (born May 5, 1946) is a biblical scholar and the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia. Rochester, New York.
He attended the University of Miami (BA, 1968), the Jewish Theological Seminary (MHL, 1971), and Harvard University (ThM in Hebrew Bible, 1974; ThD in Hebrew Bible and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 1978).
He was the Katzin Professor of Jewish Civilization: Hebrew Bible; Near Eastern Languages and Literature at the University of California, San Diego, from 1994 until 2006, whereupon he joined the faculty of the University of Georgia's Religion Department, where he is currently the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies.
Friedman teaches courses in Hebrew, Bible, and Jewish Studies.He is a winner of numerous awards and honors, including American Council of Learned Societies Fellow.
He was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford; and a Senior Fellow of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem.
He participated in the City of David Project archaeological excavations of biblical Jerusalem.
He is probably most famous for his work Who Wrote the Bible?, a highly conservative and personal description of the documentary hypothesis.