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# Baruch Halpern

(1953)   Biblical Scholar

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Baruch Halpern is a biblical scholar.

## Quick Facts About Baruch Halpern

Born April 9, 1953

Profession Biblical Scholar

## About Baruch Halpern

American academic... \| Baruch Halpern is the Covenant Foundation Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia. He was a leader of the archaeological digs at Tel Megiddo 1992–2007, as well as of an archaeological survey in southeastern Cilicia (Turkey). As an undergraduate at Harvard in 1972, he wrote a politic

##  Quotes by Baruch Halpern

> [I ran through the manuscript in the space of a day, much as one might pick compulsively at a box of chocolates.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-halpern/i-ran-through-the-manuscript-in-the-space-of-a-day-much-as-one-might/)

Baruch Halpern

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> [The actual evidence concerning the Exodus resembles the evidence for the unicorn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-halpern/the-actual-evidence-concerning-the-exodus-resembles-the-evidence-for/)

Baruch Halpern

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> [Hoffmeier furnishes a sophisticated fresh approach to the Biblical Exodus traditions filled with detailed Egyptological background, and utterly indispensable because of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-halpern/hoffmeier-furnishes-a-sophisticated-fresh-approach-to-the-biblical/)

Baruch Halpern

[Approach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/approach/)

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