Private Collections
The library expands its resources through the donation and acquisition of private collections. Many of these are displayed in the Library lobby, offering scholars curated materials tailored to their fields of study.

Collections by subject
• Peter Flint
• Florentino Garcia-Martinez
• Emanuel Tov
• Weston Fields
• Trude Dothan (Philistine archaeology)
• Jim Hoffmeier (Biblical archaeology and Egyptology)
• Carol & Eric Meyers (Biblical archaeology)
• Randall Price (Biblical archaeology)
• David Bivin (Jewish context of the New Testament / Hebrew idioms)
• Chaim Cohen (Biblical Hebrew philology)
• Moshe Goshen-Gottstein (Semitic languages / Biblical text)
• William W. Hallo (Assyriology / Ancient Near Eastern history)
• Abraham Malamat (Ancient Israelite history)
• David I. Owen (Assyriology / Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic studies)
• Larry Hurtado (Early Christian devotion to Jesus)
• Robert Lindsey (Synoptic Gospels / Jerusalem School Hypothesis)
• Alan Segal (Judaism-Christianity relations / History of religions)
• Alan Crown
• John Warwick Montgomery
• John Newport
Explore the biographies and achievements of these scholars by clicking on their names below.
- David Bivin
- Chaim Cohen
- Alan Crown
- Trude Dothan
- Peter Flint
- Florentino Garcia-Martinez
- Moshe Goshen-Gottstein
- William W. Hallo
- Jim Hoffmeier
- Larry Hurtado
- Robert Lindsey
- Abraham Malamat
- Carol & Eric Meyers
- John Newport
- David I. Owen
- Randall Price
- Alan Segal
- Emanuel Tov
- Weston Fields