Biblical

Bodies

Critical & Cultural Studies

of Embodiment

in the Hebrew Bible

FEATURED THESIS

Jeremiah’s Womb & David’s Flesh: The Forgotten Bodies of Biblical Translation

Modern readers need to know that Hebrew biblical literature reflects a distinctive body culture which English translations almost entirely fail to convey.

FEATURED THESIS

Ancient Medical Knowledge and the Textualized Body of Job

The text of Job reflects an ancient therapeutic, apotropaic project drawing on diverse kinds of medical knowledge

A place to put my writing, to gather a carrier bag of my own

Theses

A growing set of theses about biblical bodies.

Briefs

Notes, terminology, and reviews. These briefs can function as short essays, readings, definitions of terminology, engagements with theory, summaries of scholarship, endnotes, etc.

Collections

I am going to be honest here — I have written many more book proposals than books. I think of the “Collections” page as a place to share monograph titles and abstracts along with supporting writing (theses, briefs, and essays from the site as well as published articles).

Image Credit(s)

An Old Babylonian, clay fired figurine of Humbaba’s face. British Museum. (BM116624) See “Humbaba’s Head”

Gesine Marwedel, Body Painting. Photograph by Andreas Broich.

Crinoid Fossil. Photograph from the British Geological Survey.

Dustin Yellin, Psychogeography Studies. Glass, Collage, Acrylic | From left to right: Built to Spill (2019), Study for Theia (2020), Moonshot (2021), Clearing II (2019), and Moon Removed from Stomach to Make a Head (2020).

Subway post-election therapy sticky notes. Photography by Liliana Llamas for The Wall Street Journal.

Niobe Xandó, O desfile II (1975). Collage on paper.