Tim Hogue

Tim Hogue (BA, UC Berkeley 2012; PhD, UCLA 2019) is a philologist and cultural historian of the ancient Levant who also specializes in the Hebrew Bible. His research aims to reconstruct cultural practices using both close readings of documentary evidence (in languages like Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Akkadian, Old Persian, Hittite, and Hieroglyphic Luwian) and synthetic analyses of material culture. Much of his previous work has focused on Bronze and Iron Age monuments, both as they are found through excavation and in ancient literary depictions. Expanding on his work on how monuments motivated local and regional movement and ritual, his current research focuses on travel and transit, including pilgrimage, tribute bearing, migration, fugitive extradition, and urban and palatial navigation. He is the author of The Ten Commandments: Monuments of Memory, Belief, and Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 2023). His other publications and courses are listed on the department website for Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and he is among the associated faculty in the Jewish Studies Program.