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Mitchell Dahood (1922-1982) was an American Jesuit Hebraist and Bible scholar who became a professor of the Hebrew language, and of the Ancient Near East languages Ugaritic and Eblaite, at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. After Dahood's death, the Society of Biblical Literature established the Mitchell Dahood Memorial Prize, which recognizes young scholars of the ancient Near East for excellence in research. The Mitchell Dahood Memorial Prize series (1982-1997) contains information on the various competitors for, and winners of, the Mitchell Dahood Memorial Prize competition. This series also includes correpondence between nominating parties and several faculty members of the Program on Studies in Religion, who were members of the competition committee.