Wayne T. Pitard

Wayne T. Pitard is a Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Department of Religion and the Director of the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has published extensively on ancient Syrian texts and Syria’s relations with Israel. Pitard is currently working on a new image-based, digital edition of the ancient Canaanite texts from Ugarit entitled “The Ugaritic Tablets Digital Edition.”