College:
Worcester College
Research Interests:
My research focuses on the study of poetics and literary approaches to the Hebrew Bible and ancient Jewish literature. I have researched the concepts of exile and diaspora in biblical and Second Temple texts, ranging from Lamentations, Second Isaiah (40-55), the Community Rule from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the book of Esther, and the Joseph narrative (Genesis 37-50). My current research is on the role of ambiguity and typology for understanding the poetics of ancient Hebrew prophecy and its reception.
Courses Taught:
Gender and Power in Biblical Texts
Poetic World of the Hebrew Bible
Recent Publications:
“The Transformation of the Wilderness and Supersessionist Interpretations of Second Isaiah.” In Anti-Judaism and Biblical Scholarship, ed. Arjen Bakker, Hindy Najman, and Thomas Wagner, HeBAI, vol. 14 (2025). Pages 42–65.
“Isaiah’s Poetics of Exile and Wilderness in 1QS and Yehuda Amichai’s ‘Jews in the Land of Israel.’” In The Function of the ‘Reader’ in the Formation and Reception of the Book of Isaiah, ed. Sehoon Jang and Archibald van Wieringen (Leiden: Brill, 2024). Pages 235–250.
