# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-van-seters
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:44:18.745Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-van-seters"
name: "John Van Seters"
slug: "john-van-seters"
description: "John Van Seters was a Canadian scholar of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. He was a University Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina, and James A. Gray Professor of Biblical Literature at UNC. He completed his Ph.D at Yale University in Near Eastern Studies (1965) and earned a Th.D. h.c. from the University of Lausanne (1999). His honours and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH fellowship, an ACLS Fellowship, and research fellowships at Oxford, Cambridge, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and National Research Foundation of South Africa. His many publications include The Hyksos: A New Investigation (1966); Abraham in History and Tradition (1975); In Search of History ; The Edited Bible (2006); and The Biblical Saga of King David (2009)."
tagline: "Canadian religious studies scholar"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-05-02"
deathDate: "2025-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.478690666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جان ون سیترز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "جون فان سيتيرس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Van_Seters"
    title: "John Van Seters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B4_%EB%B0%98_%EC%8B%9C%ED%84%B0%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "존 반 시터스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Van_Seters"
    title: "John Van Seters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Van_Seters"
    title: "John Van Seters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump