Janet Dyk

Dr. Janet Dyk is a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, affiliated with the Religious Sources department. Her research focuses on Biblical Hebrew linguistics, translation studies, and intercultural Bible interpretation. She holds a PhD and has supervised one doctoral thesis. Key areas of expertise include the Peshitta’s translation universals, Hebrew verb morphology, and syntactic variation in ancient texts.

Her academic contributions span 63 research outputs, including edited volumes like Bible and Transformation (2015) and conference papers on verbal valence in the Dead Sea Scrolls. She has presented widely on topics such as participle usage in Biblical Hebrew and the syntactic implications of verb valency.

Dr. Dyk’s work has been supported by two NWO grants: one exploring verbal valence in Syriac texts and another examining syntactic variation and linguistic change. Her research bridges philology and theology, emphasizing intercultural approaches to biblical texts.