James D Purvis Author

James D. Purvis is Professor of Religion at Boston University, where he has taught courses in Biblical studies, ancient Near Eastern history and archeology, early Judaism, and an interdisciplinary course in the history of Jerusalem. He was a 1986 recipient of Boston University's Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is the author of The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Origin of the Samaritan Sect (Harvard University Press, 1968) and a four-part video series on Jerusalem, the Holy City (Boston University, 1989), plus many journal articles and reviews, and has contributed to several important symposia and dictionaries in biblical, archeological, and Jewish studies.