Matthew J. Suriano Susquehanna Hall College Park, Maryland (office) EDUCATION

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1 Matthew J. Suriano 4130 Susquehanna Hall College Park, Maryland (office) EDUCATION Ph.D. UCLA. Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dissertation: The Formulaic Epilogue for a King in the Book of Kings in Light of Royal Funerary Rites in Ancient Israel and the Levant. Chair: William Schniedewind M.A. UCLA, Los Angeles. Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, M.A. Jerusalem University College, Israel. Ancient History, magna cum laude, B.A. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. History, ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2011 Assistant Professor in the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, College Park Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA, and visiting faculty in the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara Visiting Instructor in the School of Religion, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Instructor in the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, American Jewish University, Bel Air, CA. PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 2010 The Politics of Dead Kings: Dynastic Ancestors in the Book of Kings and Ancient Israel. FAT II/48. M.S. Smith, H. Spieckermann, B. Janowski, eds. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES (forthcoming) Breaking Bread with the Dead: Katumuwa s Stele, Hosea 9:4, and the Early History of the Soul. Accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Oriental Society. (forthcoming) A Private Stamped Seal Handle from Tel Burna, Israel, Co-authored with I. Shai, A. Dagan, S. Riehl, A. Orendi, and J. Uziel. Accepted for publication in Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins.

2 Curriculum vitae Suriano Ruin Hills at the Threshold of the Netherworld: The Tell in the Conceptual Landscape of the Ugaritic Ba al Cycle and Ancient Near Eastern Mythology. Die Welt des Orients 42: A Place in the Dust: Text, Topography and a Toponymic Note on Micah 1:10 12a. Vetus Testamentum 60, 4: Death, Disinheritance, and Job s Kinsman-Redeemer. Journal of Biblical Literature 129, 1: Dynasty Building at Ugarit: The Ritual and Political Context of KTU Aula Orientalis 27, 5 7: The Apology of Hazael: A Literary and Historical Analysis of the Tel Dan Inscription, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 66, 3: A Fresh Reading for Aged Wine in the Samaria Ostraca, Palestine Exploration Quarterly 139, 1: CHAPTERS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES AND ONLINE RESEARCH (Forthcoming) An Incised Alphabetic Ostracon from the Kaplan Excavations at Jaffa. Chapter co-authored with W. Schniedewind, to be published in The History and Archaeology of Jaffa 2, eds. M. Peilstöcker and A. A. Burke. The Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project 2. Monumenta Archaeologica. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. (Forthcoming) The Samaria Ostraca. In the supplemental volume of Context of Scripture, edited by W. W. Hallo and K. L. Younger. Leiden & New York: Brill Historical Geography of the Levant, in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant (ca BCE). M. Steiner and A. Killebrew, eds. Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York Tetragrammaton. In Vol. 3 of the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics. G. Khan ed. Brill: Leiden and Boston Death and Afterlife, Jewish Studies, ed. David Biale, Oxford Online Bibliographies. Oxford University Press. Death and Afterlife Jewish Studies, ed. David Biale, Oxford Online Bibliographies. Oxford University Press, Underworld, Descent into the. In vol. 5 of The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. K. D. Sakenfeld, et al., eds. Abingdon Press: Nashville Abdon (Place); Abu Tuwein, Khirbet; Anathoth; Ananiah (Place); Areini, Tell El-, Azekah; Beer Sheba I. In the Bible, in vol. 1 of the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. H-J. Kauck, et al., eds. de Gruyter: Berlin. BOOK REVIEWS 2013 Review of Fleming, D. E. The Legacy of Israel in Judah s Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Review of Biblical Literature Review of Bodner, K. Jeroboam s Royal Drama. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, Review of Biblical Literature Review of The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia: Being a Phoenician, Negotiating Empires. By Vadim S. Jigoulov. London: Equinox, Pp. x Journal of the American Oriental Society 131, 4:

3 Curriculum vitae Suriano Review of The Tel Dan Inscription: A Critical Investigation of Recent Research on its Palaeography and Philology. By HALLVARD HAGELIA. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia, 22. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Pp Journal of Near Eastern Studies 69, 2: Review of Der Tod als Herrscher in Ugarit und Israel. By Gulde, S. FAT II/22. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, Review of Biblical Literature. CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Panel discussant for the book Samuel and the Shaping of Tadition by Mark Leuchter (Oxford University Press, 2013), at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Baltimore, November 25, Wine Shipments to Samaria from Royal Vineyards: A Socio-Historical Study of the Type III Reisner Ostraca. Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Baltimore, in November 23, A Private Stamp Seal from Tel Burna and its Parallels. Presented with Itzhaq Shai, Amit Dagan, and Joe Uziel at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Baltimore, in November 21, Remembering Absalom s Stele: The Reception History of 2 Samuel 18:18. Mid- Atlantic Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Baltimore. March 14, Ritual and the Promise to Jehu: Limited Kingship through Dynastic Succession. Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, in November, Breaking Bread with the Dead: the Ritual The Ritual Context of Katumuwa's Stele from Zincirli (Sam al). Archaeological Initiatives at the University of Maryland, Friday, November 9, Panel Chair for the discussion of Land of Our Fathers: The Roles of Ancestor Veneration in Biblical Land Claims by Francesca Stavrakopoulou (T&T Clark International, 2010), the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, November 22, Ruin Hills at the Threshold of the Netherworld: CAT 1.4 viii, 4 and the Cosmological Boundaries of the Ba al Cycle. National Conference of the American Oriental Society, Chicago, Illinois, March A Proto-Alphabetic Ostracon from the Kaplan Excavations at Jaffa. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov The Politics of Dead Kings: Royal Ancestors and Dynastic Succession in the Book of Kings and the Eshmunazor Sarcophagus. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 22, Sheol and the Tomb: Locating the Transition to the Afterlife in the Hebrew Bible. The biennial conference of the Society for Arabian Studies: Death, Burial and the Transition to the Afterlife in Arabia and Adjacent Regions. British Museum, London, Nov. 29, Building a Better Lineage at Ugarit: The Ritual Context of KTU Presented at the National Conference of the American Oriental Society, Chicago, Illinois, 2008 The Marginality of the Dead: Funerary-Rites and the Concept of the Afterlife in Ancient Israel. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Diego, California, November 16, 2007.

4 Curriculum vitae Suriano 4 The Problem of Death in Ancient Israel: Job 19:23-27 in Light of Tomb Inscriptions and Funerary Rites. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 20, 2006 The Tel Dan Inscription as a Political Apology: Literary and Historical Considerations. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 21, The Fall of the House of Eli: Inner-Biblical Discourse and 1 Samuel 2: Presented at the Western Conference for the Study of Religion / Pacific Coast Region of the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. Whittier, California, March 20, And He Lay with His Fathers : A Re-interpretation of the Biblical Idiom for Death and Burial. Presented at the National Conference of the American Oriental Society. San Diego California, March 15, INVITED LECTURES AND ACADEMIC WORKSHOPS Lecture, Death, Burial, and Ancestral Narratives in the Book of Kings. For the Biblical Archaeology Forum, at the Jewish Community Center in Rockville, Md. September 12, Lecture, Death, Burial, and Ancestral Narratives in the Book of Kings. Wheaton College, Illinois. September 23, Lecture, The excavations at Tel Burna and its implications for the history of Iron Age Judah. For the Biblical Archaeology Forum, at the Jewish Community Center in Rockville, Md. September 12, Lecture, Death in the Kingdom of Judah: The social process of dying and the ritual context of the dead. The Divinity School at the University of Chicago. January 18, Faculty presentation, Dying as a Social Process in Ancient Judaism, for the Jewish Studies Workshop at the Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University. January 21, Presentation, The Iron Age Tumuli of the Jerusalem Area: An Archaeological Anomaly Between Topography and Text, for the Fellows Workshop at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem. May 1, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2013 Learning Enhancement Mini-Grant from the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Maryland Hornstein Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Maryland Samuel Iwry Fellowship, University of Maryland Platt Fellowship, The American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertation Year Fellowship. UCLA American Oriental Society Graduate Student Award, Conference Travel Dorot Foundation Travel Scholarship for the 2007 American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting George A. Barton Fellow. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem ( annual appointment) Quality of Graduate Education Fellowship, Summer Session. UCLA.

5 Curriculum vitae Suriano Quality of Graduate Education Fellowship, Fall Quarter. UCLA Quality of Graduate Education Fellowship, Summer Session. UCLA American Oriental Society Graduate Student Award, Conference Travel 2004 Society of Biblical Literature Pacific Coast Region Graduate Student Paper Award in Hebrew Bible Graduate Division Fellowship, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA Graduate Scholarship, Jerusalem University College. ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD WORK Tel Burna Excavation, Israel, Directed by Itzhaq Shai and Joe Uziel of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research. Ramat Rahel Archaeological Excavation, Israel, Directed by Oded Lipschits of Tel Aviv University and Manfred Oeming of Heidelberg University. Tel Dor Archaeological Excavation, Israel, 1999 Season. Directed by Ephraim Stern of the Hebrew University. Tel Rehov Archaeological Excavation, Israel, Directed by Amihai Mazar of the Hebrew University. FORMAL LANGUAGE TRAINING ANCIENT: Hebrew, Aramaic and related West Semitic Languages, Akkadian, Sumerian. Additional studies in Hittite, Luwian, Hurrian, and Greek. MODERN: Reading proficiency in German, French, and Hebrew. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP Society of Biblical Literature, American Schools of Oriental Research, American Oriental Society