Dr. James Strange Office Location: CPR 304 Office Phone: (813) 974-1859

James Strange is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies. He has served both as Chairperson of Religious Studies (1990-93) and as Dean of the College of Arts and Letters (1981-89). He earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Rice University in 1959, an M.Div. from Ya le Divinity School in 1964, and a PhD. in New Testament Studies from Drew University in 1970. He was Montgomery Fellow at the W.F. Abright Institute for Archaelogical Research in Jerusalem in 1970-71 and NEH fellow at the same Institute in 1980.

Dr. Strange's research interests are in Biblical Archaelogy, New Testament Studies, Christian origins and post-Biblical Judaism. His published co-authored books include Ancient Synagogue Excavations at Khirbet Shema, Israel (1976), Excavations at Ancient Meiron, Upper Galilee, Israel (1981), and Archaeology, the Rabbis and Early Christianity (1981), and Excavations in the Ancient Synagogue of Gush Halav (1990). He also revised and edited H.T. Frank's Rediscover ing the Biblical World (1987).

Dr. Stange's articles have appeared in journals such as the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, The Biblical Archeologist, The Biblical Archaelogy Review (for which he sits on the editorial board), Revue Biblique, The Israel Exploration Journal, and The Anglican Theological Review, as well as in The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, The International Standard Bible Encylopedia and the Mercer Bible Dictionary. Other articles appeared in the Anchor Dictionary of the Bible (1992). Strange has participated in field archaeology annually since 1969 and has directed the excavations at Sepphoris, Israel annually since 1983. Strange is the art and archaeology editor for the Macmillan Dictionary of Formative Judaism.

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strange@chuma.cas.usf.edu

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