Dr Marieke Dhont

Septuagint and Jewish-Greek literature

Second Temple Judaism

Hebrew and Greek Linguistics

Biography

Marieke Dhont is an affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity and a teaching associate for the Cambridge Foundation Year.

She obtained Master's degrees in Classics and Cultural Studies from KU Leuven (Belgium) and a joint doctorate in Theology at the UC Louvain and in Religious Studies at the KU Leuven in 2016 with a dissertation on the Septuagint of Job. Her dissertation was published as Style and Context of Old Greek Job (Brill, 2018). Marieke has held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Cambridge, 2018-21) and a Center for Hellenic Studies Fellowship (Harvard University, 2021-22), and is currently a FWF Esprit Postdoctoral Fellow (Paris Lodron University Salzburg, 2022-27). She is working on a project on Jewish-Greek literature.

Research

Marieke's main areas of interest are Hellenistic Judaism, the Hebrew Bible in the Hellenistic period, and Jewish-Greek literature. She engages sociolinguistics and contemporary theories of culture, literature, and translation.

Publications

Key publications:

Monographs:

M. Dhont, Style and Context of Old Greek Job (JSJSupp 183; Leiden: Brill, 2018).

Edited volumes:

M. Dhont (ed), T&T Clark Handbook to Hellenistic Jewish Literature in Greek (London: Bloomsbury, 2025).

B. Longenecker, M. Dhont, and J.K. Aitken † (eds), The Septuagint and the Apocrypha. Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies (Nashville: Zondervan Academic, forthcoming).

Journal articles:

M. Dhont, “Special Issue: The Septuagint within the History of Greek,” Journal for the Study of Judaism 54 (2023): 429-31 (OA https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12511377).

J.K. Aitken † and M. Dhont, “The Septuagint within the History of Greek: An Introduction,” Journal for the Study of Judaism 54 (2023): 432-49 (OA https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-bja10073).

M. Dhont, “Syntax and Pronominal Competence in Post-Classical Greek and the Septuagint,” Journal for the Study of Judaism 54 (2023): 582-605 (OA https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-bja10069).

M. Dhont, “Intertext and Allusion in Jewish-Greek Literature: An Introduction,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 32/2 (2022): 101-9 (OA https://doi.org/10.1177/09518207221137933).

M. Dhont, “The Use of Greek in Palestine: Eupolemus as a Case Study,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 154 (2022): 1-17 (OA https://doi.org/10.1080/00310328.2022.2050074).

M. Dhont, “Multicausality in Septuagint Studies,” Journal for Septuagint and Cognate Studies 54 (2021): 43-53.

M. Dhont, “Jewish Poets, Greek Poetry: Literary Traditions in Hellenistic Jewish Poetry,” Biblische Notizen 189 (2021): 65-86.*

M. Dhont, “Greek Education and Cultural Identity in Greek-Speaking Judaism: The Jewish-Greek Historiographers,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 29 (2020): 217-28 (OA https://doi.org/10.1177/0951820720936601).

Book chapters:

M. Dhont, “The Old Testament: Texts and Versions,” in: K. Dell (eds.), The Biblical World. 2nd ed. (Routledge Worlds; London: Routledge, 2021), 314-331.

M. Dhont, “Translation Technique and Hellenistic Jewish Exegesis and Theology,” in: E. Glenny and W. Ross (eds.), Handbook for Septuagint Research (Bloomsbury Companions; Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2021), 21-33.