2025 Abila Lecture: "New Light on the Exodus" with Dr. James K. Hoffmeier

**Admission is free and open to the public.**

James K. Hoffmeier is Emeritus Professor of Old Testament and Near Eastern Archaeology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois. Born and raised in Egypt, Hoffmeier’s passion for Biblical Archaeology and Old Testament studies began in his youth growing up in Egypt, which led him to major in Near Eastern Archaeology at Wheaton College (IL). Graduate school took him to the University of Toronto, where he earned his MA and PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Religions, majoring in Egyptian and minoring in Old Testament. While a graduate student he worked on the Akhenaten Temple Project’s excavations at East Karnak. From 1980-1999 he was on the faculty of Wheaton College, while from 1999-2019 Hoffmeier taught at Trinity. He directed the North Sinai Archaeological Project from 1994-2008 which included excavations at Tell el-Borg and paleo-environmental research of northwestern Sinai. Two volumes of final reports of the work, Tell el-Borg I & II, were published in 2014 and 2019. He is presently engaged in archaeological fieldwork in the Taharka/Tirhaka pyramid complex in Nuri, Sudan.

Hoffmeier is also the author of "Israel in Egypt" (Oxford University Press, 1997) and a second, enlarged edition is in press, and "Ancient Israel in Sinai" (Oxford University Press, 2005), "The Immigration Crisis" (Wheaton: Crossway, 2009 – soon to appear in a 2nd edition with Kregel), "Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism" (Oxford University Press, 2015), and recently, "The Prophets of Israel: Walking Ancient Paths" (Kregel 2021). He has authored and edited 20 books and written more than 100 articles in journals, books, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.

Dr. Hoffmeier is a member of Keystone Evangelical Free Church in Paradise, PA. He remains active as an educator, leading Bible Land Studies tours to Egypt and Turkey and teaching adult Bible classes in churches. He also regularly gives lectures and seminars in Egypt and previously in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mongolia, Romania, Australia, England and the US.

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