Julia Snyder

Dr. Julia Snyder is a Lecturer in New Testament at the Westcott House and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. She co-leads the Cambridge Interfaith Programme's Scripture & Violence Project with Daniel H. Weiss, addressing modern concerns about scriptural texts and violence.

• Education:
  • B.A. in Classics and Mathematics, USA
  • M.Div. in Theological Studies
  • Ph.D. in New Testament and Early Christianity from the University of Edinburgh

Her research focuses include: New Testament and Early Christian Apocrypha, Storytelling Practices, Community Dynamics, Gender Studies, Slavery in Christian Contexts, and Sociolinguistics. She explores how speech patterns in early Christian texts reflect social contexts and influence identity formation.

Julia welcomes MPhil and PhD students in New Testament and early Christian studies. She has taught at German universities and served as a Research Associate at Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity.

Scientific Contributions: Co-edited volumes on Scripture and Violence (2021) and Reading the Political in Jewish and Christian Texts (2020), and authored monographs like Language and Identity in Ancient Narratives (2014). Her work examines genre conventions in Christian apocrypha, apostolic characterizations, and interfaith hermeneutics.

Personal Interests: Enjoys canoeing, folk dancing, and cross-cultural engagement.