Tim Hogue

Tim Hogue is an Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israelite History and Culture in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences, with associated faculty status in the Jewish Studies Program.

His educational background includes:

• BA from UC Berkeley (2012)
• PhD from UCLA (2019)

As a philologist and cultural historian of the ancient Levant, Hogue specializes in reconstructing cultural practices through documentary evidence in multiple ancient languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Akkadian, Old Persian, Hittite, and Hieroglyphic Luwian) combined with material culture analysis. His research examines Bronze and Iron Age monuments as both archaeological features and literary constructs, investigating their role in motivating movement, ritual, and cultural memory formation. Current projects explore travel and transit systems in antiquity including pilgrimage routes, migration patterns, tribute processes, fugitive extradition protocols, and urban navigation within palatial contexts.

His publications demonstrate a consistent interdisciplinary approach bridging textual analysis and archaeology, exemplified by his 2023 monograph on the Ten Commandments which analyzes monumentality as a framework for understanding memory, belief systems, and interpretive traditions in ancient religious contexts.