David Noel Freedman

Life

Teaching positions

• 1992–2008: Endowed Chair in Hebrew Biblical Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
• 1989–97: Program Director for the Study of Religion at UCSD.
• 1986–92: Teaches at the University of Michigan and UCSD
• 1984–92: Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Biblical Studies, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• 1971–83: Professor of Biblical Studies, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
• 1966–71: Dean of Faculty at SFTS
• 1964–71: Gray Professor of Old Testament Exegesis at San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union
• 1961–64: James A. Kelso Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
• 1948–64: Professor of Old Testament, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Western Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, PA
• 1947–48: Assistant Instructor at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland
• 1946–47: Teaching Fellow, The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland

  Excavations

Education

• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, PhD Semitic Languages and Literature
• Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, ThB Hebrew Bible
• University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, BA Modern European History
• City College of New York, New York