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Maxine Grossman is an Associate Professor in the Classics Department at the University of Maryland, serving as Director of the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies. Her work bridges ancient Jewish studies, gender analysis, and contemporary religious experience. She earned her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and focuses on Dead Sea Scrolls interpretation, postmodern methodologies, and intersections between gender/sexuality and sectarian identity.
Key research areas include sectarian practices in ancient Judaism, textual analysis of the Community Rule and Damascus Document, and queer theory applications to religious texts. She co-edits the Journal of Ancient Judaism and contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion. Her books include Reading for History in the Damascus Document (2002) and edited collections like Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls (2010).
Teaching and advising roles include overseeing the undergraduate Religious Studies minor and Religions of the Ancient Middle East major. Research highlights include gendered analysis of Qumran communities and interdisciplinary approaches to scrolls interpretation. Her work explores how ancient texts articulate lived religious experience through lenses of embodiment, power, and identity.
