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Elizabeth Backfish is an Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Jessup University in Rocklin, CA. She holds a PhD from Trinity International University in Deerfield, IL, and serves on the board of the Institute for Biblical Research (IBR) as the director of IBR Women.
Her educational background includes doctoral training at Trinity International University, establishing her expertise in biblical languages and textual analysis.
Dr. Backfish specializes in the intersection of Hebrew linguistics and ancient translation practices, with particular focus on how wordplay mechanisms in the Hebrew Bible influence Septuagint renderings. Her research methodology combines philological analysis with comparative textual studies, contributing to scholarly understanding of early biblical interpretation traditions.
Her major scholarly contribution is the monograph "Hebrew Wordplay and Septuagint Translation Technique in the Fourth Book of the Psalter" (Bloomsbury, 2019), which examines linguistic phenomena in Psalms 90-106 and their transmission in the Greek translation.
- Board member, Institute for Biblical Research
- Director, IBR Women initiative
Through her leadership in IBR Women, Dr. Backfish promotes gender diversity in biblical scholarship while maintaining active research and teaching responsibilities at Jessup University.
