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Jacqueline Vayntrub is an Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Divinity School (Yale University). Her research focuses on ancient literary cultures, particularly the Hebrew Bible's genres, ancient Near Eastern literary production, and the reception history of biblical scholarship. She co-chairs the Philology in Hebrew Studies program unit at the Society of Biblical Literature and chairs the Hebrew Bible, History, and Archaeology unit.
Education: PhD (2015) and MA (2009) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago; MA (2006) in Bible and its World from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; BA (2003) in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from UCLA.
Research emphasizes recovering ancient literary values through textual analysis and examining their modern reinterpretations. Her first book, Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms (2019), critiques modern assumptions about biblical poetry's origins. Ongoing projects include Reframing Biblical Poetry (Yale U.P., 2024) and Seeking Eternity: Transmission and Mortal Anxiety in Biblical Literature, exploring themes of legacy and mortality in ancient texts.
Awards include a 2019–2020 fellowship at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (UPenn). She has authored over 20 peer-reviewed articles in journals like Harvard Theological Review and Catholic Bible Quarterly, and serves as an editor for Brill's Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible.
Her teaching and scholarship bridge ancient philology with contemporary critical theory, addressing questions of authorship, oral/written traditions, and intertextuality. Active in international collaborations like the Renewed Philology working group, she also directs a project on ancient writings about death with Matthew Suriano for SBL's Writings of the Ancient World series.
