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Richard D. Hecht. Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies. Ph.D., UC Los Angeles. Area: Hebrew Judaic Studies, History of Religion. Office: HSSB 3076. Email: ariel@religion.ucsb.edu.
Richard D. Hecht | Jewish Studies - UC Santa Barbara. Professor. ariel@religion.ucsb.edu. Office Location: HSSB 3076. Website: Profile Page. Specialization: Professor of Religious Studies. Bio: Professor Hecht received his Ph.D. in the History of Religions from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1976.
Richard David Hecht: Curriculum Vitae. Department Address: Department of Religious Studies University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106. Phone: (805) 893-4552 or 893-3564. FAX: (805) 893-2059. e-mail: ariel@religion.ucsb.edu. Academic Degrees: B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara (Philosophy), 1966.
Richard Hecht | Comparative Literature Program - UC Santa Barbara. Religious Studies. ariel@religion.ucsb.edu. Website: https://www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/emeriti/richard-d-hecht… Specialization: Research interests: History of religions, Judaic studies.
Richard Hecht joined the faculty in the 1970s to offer a series of courses in Hebrew Bible and in the religious history of Jews. Hebrew text courses were offered in the Department of Religious Studies in the mid-1970s and included Biblical, Rabbinic, medieval and modern texts.
Richard Hecht is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies at UCSB, where he taught from 1974 until his retirement in 2021. After Walter Capps ran for Congress in 1994, Hecht taught the Vietnam War course until it ended in 2018. Events may be photographed, livestreamed, and recorded.
BIO. Richard is an Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he has been a full professor since 1991 and director of the Center for the Study of Religion from the year 2000 to 2018. He holds a PhD in History of Religions from the University of California, Los Angeles.
