Jeremy D. Smoak

Senior Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA

Jeremy D. Smoak is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. He teaches courses on biblical literature, classical Hebrew, Israelite religion, and the history of Jerusalem. He was awarded a Distinguished Teaching Award by UCLA in 2016. His recent monograph The Priestly Blessing in Inscription and Scripture: The Early History of Numbers 6:24-26 was published with Oxford University Press (2016).