People specializing in this area
University Teaching Officers
- Second Temple Judaism
- Apocrypha
- The Septuagint
- Book of Judges
- Hebrew language and Lexicography
- Greek language and Lexicography
- Proverbs
- Job Ecclesiastes
- wisdom literature
- creation
- ecological readings of texts
- musical interpretation of biblical texts
- Pentateuch; Former Prophets; Isaiah; Ezekiel
- Intersection of inner-biblical interpretation, redaction criticism and the canonical approach
- Intersection of history of Israelite religion and Old Testament theology
- Priesthood and ritual
Academic staff
- Second Temple Judaism
- Apocrypha
- The Septuagint
- Book of Judges
- Hebrew language and Lexicography
- Greek language and Lexicography
- Proverbs
- Job Ecclesiastes
- wisdom literature
- creation
- ecological readings of texts
- musical interpretation of biblical texts
- Theology of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
- Ancient Hebrew Semantics
- Reception History of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
- Book of Psalms
- Metaphor in Bible translation and interpretation
- Cognitive Linguistics and Hebrew Semantics
- Biblical interpretation
- Death and the afterlife
- Pentateuch; Former Prophets; Isaiah; Ezekiel
- Intersection of inner-biblical interpretation, redaction criticism and the canonical approach
- Intersection of history of Israelite religion and Old Testament theology
- Priesthood and ritual
- The natural world in the Old Testament.
- Ecological hermeneutics and environmental ethics
- Old Testament prophetic texts
- Creation texts and their interpretation in later Jewish and Christian writings
Directors of Studies
- Proverbs
- Job Ecclesiastes
- wisdom literature
- creation
- ecological readings of texts
- musical interpretation of biblical texts
- Theology of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
- Ancient Hebrew Semantics
- Reception History of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
- Book of Psalms
- Metaphor in Bible translation and interpretation
- Cognitive Linguistics and Hebrew Semantics
- The natural world in the Old Testament.
- Ecological hermeneutics and environmental ethics
- Old Testament prophetic texts
- Creation texts and their interpretation in later Jewish and Christian writings
Retired Faculty
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament Studies
Graduate students
The Obligations of Gift-exchange in Ancient Societies as Context for Selected Narratives in the Book of Judges
False Prophecy as a Scribal Construct in the Book of Jeremiah
PhD research topic: 'Lexemes and Inner-Syriac developments in the Peshitta of Genesis'
The Exegetical Practice of Interpreting Mosaic Law in the Book of Ezra-Nehemiah as an Agent of Identity Formation
Homonymy and Polysemy in Biblical Hebrew Lexicography
The argument in heaven: Unmerited and excessive suffering in the book of Job
Putting Tamar in her Place
Septuagint Lexicography and Language Change in Greek Judges
Reading the Old Testament through ecocritical eyes, with a view to understanding causality in the texts that feature divine, human and nonhuman agencies
A Portrait of Solomon: The Relationship between 1 Kings 1-11, Proverbs, Songs, and Ecclesiastes