John Maier

John Maier is a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York-Brockport. Maier received a PhD from Duquesne University. Maier has published 35 articles and 58 papers and is listed in International Men of Achievement, Dictionary of International Biography, Who's Who in Biblical Studies and Archaeology, and Who's Who in American Education. He has completed postdoctoral studies in ancient Sumerian and Akkadian literature in cuneiform, the concept of "other" in literature and the social sciences, intensive Modern Standard Arabic, and Moroccan Arabic. Maier is the coeditor with Vincent L. Tollers of The Bible in its Literary Milieu (Eerdmans, 1979), coauthor with John Gardner and Richard A. Henshaw of Gilgamesh: Translated from the Sin-leqi-unninni Version (Vintage Books, 1985), coauthor with Samual Noah Kramer of Myths of Enki, The Crafty God (Oxford University Press, 1989), coeditor with Vincent L. Tollers of Mappings of the Biblical Terrain: The Bible as Text (Associated University Presses, 1990), author of Desert Songs: Western Images of Morocco and Moroccan Images of the West (State University of New York Press, 1996), and editor of Gilgamesh: A Reader (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1997).