Job title:
Lecturer in Hebrew Bible
Department:
Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures
Bio/CV:
Dr. Jenna Kemp is a lecturer in Hebrew Bible in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. Her work blends philological approaches to the Hebrew bible with theoretical approaches to historiography, cultural memory, and literary culture. She will be teaching courses in Hebrew Bible, Jewish studies, and biblical Hebrew.
Dr. Kemp earned her MA in biblical studies from the Graduate Theological Union (2014) and her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley with a designated emphasis in Jewish Studies (2021). Before joining the faculty inMELC, she held a postdoc position at Universität Basel (2021-2024), working on a project entitled “Transforming Memories of Collective Violence in the Hebrew Bible.” She has been an affiliated early career researcher in the international working group, “Renewed Philology,” since 2021. Her book, Forgetting to Remember: Cultural Memory, Intertextuality, and Scribal Agency in the Hebrew Bible, will be in print (open access) in 2025.
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