Alejandro F. Botta

Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible

Education

B. Th. Instituto Bíblico Buenos Aires.

Profesor de Enseñanza Secundaria, Normal y Especial en Historia, and Licenciatura en Historia.  Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Licenciatura en Teología. Instituto Universitario ISEDET.

Study of Assyriology and Egyptology. Bayerische-Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany.

Diploma de Estudios Avanzados.  Departmento de Ciencias de las Religiones. Universidad Complutense.

Ph.D. (summa cum laude).  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Teaching Specialties

Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Prophetic Literature, Hebrew Exegesis, Biblical Interpretation from a Hispanic Perspective

Research Interests

Elephantine papyri, Aramaic-Demotic Interrelationships, The Book of Chronicles, Latin-American Biblical Interpretation

Selected Publications

“The Legal Function and Egyptian Background of the שליט Clause: A Reevaluation,” Maarav 13.2 (2006), 193-209.

“רחק in the Bible, a Reevaluation.” Biblica 87 (2006), 418-420.

Los doce profetas menores. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006;

"1 Reyes 12:1-20: Análisis estructural," Cuadernos de Teología 24 (2005): 9-16;

"1 & 2 Crónicas," Comentario Bíblico Latinoamericano, ed. Armando Levoratti, Estella, Spain: Editorial Verbo Divino (2005): 845-874;

"Sin and Forgiveness in the Demotic Story of Setne I," ed. Irena Shirun-Grumach, Jerusalem Studies in Egyptology, Ägypten und Altes Testament 40 (1998): 233-242;

with S. Vinson, "The Cowardly Crocodile in Onchsheshonqy 22/15 amd Merikare P. 97-98, " Enchoria-Zeitschrift für Demotisik und Koptologie 23 (1996): 177-178.