# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-g-dever
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:36:00.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-g-dever"
name: "William G. Dever"
slug: "william-g-dever"
description: "William Gwinn Dever is an American archaeologist, Biblical scholar, historian, semiticist, and theologian. He is an active scholar of the Old Testament, and historian, specialized in the history of the Ancient Near East and the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah in biblical times. He was Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona in Tucson from 1975 to 2002. He is a Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania."
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birthDate: "1933-11-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump