Ancient Near Eastern Studies Coordinator
Professor of Ancient Scripture
Office:
205 HRCB
Telephone: (801) 422-2238
Fax: (801) 422-0382
E-mail: dana_pike@byu.edu
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Ancient Israelite names, religion, and inscriptions
Dead Sea Scrolls
PhD, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1990
BS, Near Eastern archaeology and anthropology, Brigham Young University, 1978
Pike taught Old Testament at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, for a year (1991–1992) before joining BYU's faculty in 1992. After chairing the committee to create BYU's Ancient Near Eastern Studies program (ANES), he was selected to serve as the first ANES coordinator in fall 2005. He was a member of the international team of editors for the Dead Sea Scrolls (1994–2001), publishing many smaller fragments from Qumran Cave 4 (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, 33). He was on the faculty at BYU's Jerusalem Center (1997–98 and 2000–01), and he serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies and on the program committee for the Rocky Mountain regional meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature. His current research and publication emphasizes divine election in the ancient Near East, as well as efforts to explicate scripture in light of ancient Near Eastern languages and culture.
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