John Screnock

John Screnock is a Tutor in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford (since 2021). He previously served as a Research Fellow in Hebrew Bible (2018-2021) and Kennicott Fellow in Hebrew (2015-2018) at Oxford.

• Education: PhD from University of Toronto

His research spans Hebrew Bible, Psalms, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, and ancient Hebrew linguistics, focusing on scribal practices, textual criticism, and interlingual translation dynamics. Recent publications emphasize manuscript evidence from Qumran, Ugaritic parallels, and poetics in biblical Hebrew.

Key article trends include:

• Textual criticism methodologies across Hebrew, Septuagint, and Dead Sea Scrolls
• Scribal activity in Psalms and Exodus
• Numeral syntax and linguistic peculiarities in ancient Hebrew
• Comparative analysis of command-execution structures in biblical literature

Contact: john.screnock@wycliffe.ox.ac.uk