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HOMENAJE DR ROY BLIZZARD

Roy B.Blizzard,Jr.,Ph.D.

Dr. Roy B. Blizzard, Jr. is the founder and CEO of biblescholars.org, a corporation (based in

Austin, Texas) dedicated to biblical research and education. Dr. Blizzard attended Oklahoma

Military Academy and has a B.A. degree from Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma. He has

an M.A. degree from Eastern New Mexico University and an M.A. degree from The University

of Texas at Austin. He studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was awarded a

Ph.D. in the general field of Hebrew Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in the

spring of 1973.

In 1968, 1971, and 1972, Dr. Blizzard worked with Professor Benjamin Mazar on theexcavations at the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In 1973, he began

working with Dr. Amihai Mazar, Professor Mazar's nephew, at Tel Qasile where a Philistine

Temple dating from 1200 BCE was excavated. Dr. Blizzard excavated with Amihai for several

seasons.

Much of Dr. Blizzard's academic career has been spent in Israel and the Middle East in study

and research. In the summer of 2004, he and his students excavated in Israel with Dr. Eilat

Mazar, Professor Mazar's granddaughter and Amihai Mazar's cousin, at Achziv in a

Phoenician cemetery dating from 1200 BCE. Over the years, he has directed and guided

numerous Historical/Archaeological Study Seminars to Israel as well as Jordan, Egypt,

Turkey, Greece and Italy.

As a host of over 500 television programs about Israel and Judaism for various television

networks, Dr. Blizzard is sought after as a frequent guest on both television and radio.

He has written and produced over 20 study programs on various subjects, which have been

recorded and are offered in the Bookstore on this Web site. He is the co-author of

Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus and author of the e-book, Tithing, Giving and,

Prosperity. Dr. Blizzard also authored Let Judah Go Up First, A Believer's Guide to Passover

- A Christian Haggadah with Parallels to the Lord's Supper, and Jesus the Rabbi and His

Rabbinic Method of Teaching, all available on this Web site as well. His current work, Jesus

the Man, His Ministry and His Message, will be published soon.

Dr. Blizzard has served as an Adjunct Professor of Union Graduate School of the Union forExperimental Colleges and Universities in Cincinnati, Ohio. He continues to serve on various

graduate student committees at the University of Texas at Austin for students working on

their doctoral degrees. Dr. Blizzard was recently appointed as Associate for Development of

the Nature Park & Galleries, the open-campus museum of the Hebrew University of

Jerusalem and will be working with the museum director, Dr. Jeff Camhi, in assisting in the

promotion and funding of the museum.