Baruch A. Levine

Baruch Abraham Levine (July 10, 1930 – December 16, 2021) was the Skirball Professor Emeritus of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at New York University.

Levine was educated at Case Western Reserve University and obtained his PhD at Brandeis University in 1962; he mainly wrote in the fields of biblical and Middle Eastern studies.

Levine contributed the Leviticus volume to the JPS Torah Commentary series and the Numbers volumes (1–20 and 21–36, with translation) to the Anchor Yale Bible series. In 1975 he published with James Bennett Pritchard The Israelites, the 19th book in the Time-Life 20 vol. series The Emergence of Man. He also wrote In the Presence of the Lord: A Study of Cult and Some Cultic Terms in Ancient Israel (Brill, 1997).