About
Dr. Ingrid Esther Lilly is a writer, scholar, and professor of religious studies. She teaches at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina and is grateful to her students for their energetic, brave, and generous discussions.
Previously published essays about biblical bodies
I recently prepared the critical study notes for the Book of Job in the Westminster Study Bible (available Spring, 2024)
“The Fertility of Bones: Towards a Corporeal Philology of Reproduction” HeBai 8 (2019): 431–447.
“The Corporeality of the Self: The Example of Bitter Nefeš as an Ethnomedical Syndrome” Dead Sea Discoveries 28 (2021): 396-422.
“Rȗaḥ Embodied: Job’s Internal Disease from the Perspective of Mesopotamian Medicine” in Annette Weissenrieder (ed.), Borders: Terminologies, Ideologies, and Performances, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, p. 323–336.
“Conceptualizing Spirit: Supernatural Meteorology and Personal Distress in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East” in Joel Baden, Hindy Najman et Eibert Tigchelaar (eds.), Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy, JSJSup 175, Leiden, Brill, p. 826–844.
“The Critical Potential of Spirits: Hebrew Philology, the Poetics of Relation, and Unfamiliar Selves” Ancient Jew Review April 19, 2023. [www.ancientjewreview.com]
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