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Jeffrey Stackert

Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Divinity School

In residency beginning Autumn 2008.

M.T.S. (Boston University School of Theology)
Ph.D. (Brandeis University)

Jeffrey Stackert is a biblical scholar who situates the Hebrew Bible in the context of the larger ancient Near Eastern world in which it was composed. His first book, Rewriting the Torah: Literary Revision in Deuteronomy and the Holiness Legislation (Mohr Siebeck, 2007), addresses literary correspondences among the biblical legal corpora and especially the relationships between similar laws in Deuteronomy and pentateuchal Priestly literature. He also co-edited the new volume Perspectives on Purity and Purification in the Bible (T&T Clark, 2008). His current research is in the areas of biblical law, with special focus upon the book of Deuteronomy and its literary interactions with Israelite and non-Israelite sources; Priestly ritual texts and their ties to non-biblical ancient Near Eastern literature and practice; and the cultic and martial imagery of Amos’s visions.