Wayne T. Pitard is Professor of Religious Studies, with a subsidiary appointment at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. His primary areas of research are (1) the history of ancient Syria and its political and cultural relationship with Israel; (2) concepts of death and afterlife in ancient Syria-Palestine; and (3) the production of a new image-based, digital edition of the ancient Canaanite texts from the city of Ugarit, Syria, entitled The Ugaritic Tablets Digital Edition. He teaches courses on the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Archaeology and the Bible, and the religions and cultures of the ancient Near East. He has just completed a commentary on part of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle.

Courses Taught
RLST 106 Archaeology and the Bible
RLST 201 Hebrew Bible in English
RLST 443 Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
RLST 498 Literacy in the Ancient Near East