DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY
Dr. George Giacumakis
PRESENT STATUS
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•Director Emeritus of the South Orange County Campuses of California State University,
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Fullerton, 1987 - 2008, Mission Viejo & Irvine, CA
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•CSUF Professor of History, 1985 - present
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•Biola University Professor of History, 2007 - present
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•Director of the Museum of Biblical & Sacred Writings, 2007 - present
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
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•President and Executive Director, American Institute of Holy Land Studies, now Jerusalem University College, Mt. Zion, Jerusalem, Israel, 1978 - 1984
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•CSUF Interdisciplinary Studies Center Director, 1968 - 1977
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•CSUF History Department Chair, 1972 - 1975
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•CSUF History Department Graduate Coordinator, 1968 - 1972
FORMAL EDUCATION
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•Ph.D. Mediterranean/Near Eastern Studies, Brandeis University, 1963
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•M.A. Mediterranean/Near Eastern Studies, Brandeis University, 1961
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•B.A. Hebrew-Hellenistics, Shelton College, 1959, summa cum laude
CONDENSED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
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•International Standard Version of the Bible, General Editor, 1996 - present
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•Young’s Bible Dictionary, Editor, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton IL, 1984, 1989, 1996
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•New American Standard Bible, Editorial Committee and Translator, 1971, 1977
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•The Akkadian of Alalah, Mouton Publishers, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1969
