Prof. Alan T. Levenson

University of Oklahoma

Prof. Alan T. Levenson holds the Schusterman/Josey Chair in Judaic History at the University of Oklahoma and is the director of the Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from Ohio State University. Levenson is the author of The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible: How Scholars in Germany, Israel and America Transformed an Ancient Text, and Joseph: Portraits Through the Ages (2016), and a biography of the Manchester-raised author-translator Maurice Samuel (forthcoming).

Last Updated: November 10, 2026

Books by the Author

Joseph: Portraits through the Ages

Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: Defenses of Jews and Judaism in Germany, 1871-1932

The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism

An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers: From Spinoza to Soloveitchik

The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible

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Articles by Author

Was the Documentary Hypothesis Tainted by Wellhausen’s Antisemitism?

Julius Wellhausen’s analysis of the Torah is perfused with the anti-Jewish sentiment prevalent in Bismarck’s Second German Reich. This adversely affected the use of the Documentary Hypothesis among Jewish scholars until Yehezkel’s Kaufmann’s introduction of a Jewish variation on the theory.