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Samuel Boyd is an Associate Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Colorado. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago (2014), where his interdisciplinary dissertation bridged Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Divinity, and Linguistics. His research focuses on biblical texts and the ancient Near East, emphasizing sociolinguistic contexts of language contact and religious identity formation under imperial forces.
Education:
- PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago, 2014
Research Interests:
- Development of the Pentateuch
- Legal hermeneutics in ancient Near Eastern contexts
- Language ideology and sociolinguistics
- Ritual theory applied to biblical texts
- Archaeology of the ancient Near East
- Semitic philology and linguistics
Professional Recognition:
- Martin Marty Junior Fellow, University of Chicago Divinity School
- Chicago Center for Jewish Studies Dissertation Fellow
Advising/Grants: No advisees listed in the provided text. Funding supported interdisciplinary research on language contact in biblical texts.
Labs/Teams: No specific lab affiliations mentioned, though his work intersects with interdisciplinary teams in biblical studies and ancient linguistics.
