Susan Ackerman

|Professor Emerita
Academic Appointments

Preston H. Kelsey Professor of Religion, Emerita

Susan Ackerman joined the Religion Department in 1990 after teaching at the University of Arizona and at Winthrop College in South Carolina. She is a specialist in the religion of ancient Israel and the religions of Israel's neighbors (Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Canaan), an interest she first developed as an undergraduate religion major at Dartmouth (A.B., 1980) and continued to explore in graduate school at Harvard (M.T.S., 1982; Ph.D., 1987).

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Contact

Susan.Ackerman@dartmouth.edu

Department(s)

Religion

Education

  • A.B. Dartmouth College, 1980
  • M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School, 1982
  • Ph.D. Harvard University, 1987

Selected Publications

  • Gods, Goddesses, and the Women Who Serve Them (2022)

  • Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel (2022)

  • When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David (2005).

  • Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel (1998).

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Works In Progress

Maturity, Marriage, Motherhood, and Mortality: Women's Life-Cycle Rituals in Ancient Israel