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Dr. Sandra Jacobs is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and teaches at Leo Baeck College, London. She earned her doctorate from the University of Manchester in 2010 under Bernard Jackson, specializing in physical disfigurement and corporal punishment in ancient Hebrew and cuneiform legal sources.
Her doctoral research culminated in the monograph The Body as Property: Physical Disfigurement in Biblical Law (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2014), establishing her expertise in biblical jurisprudence. Her scholarly focus extends to restitution mechanisms in ancient law, notably analyzing Exodus passages concerning accidental death in her article "Deathblows to a Pregnant Woman – What Restitution Was Required?" which argues for familial substitution over monetary compensation.
From 2010 to 2016, Dr. Jacobs served as Book Review Editor for Strata: The Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society. She subsequently contributed to the Leverhulme Trust International Network project "Dispersed Qumran Cave Artefacts and Archives" at King's College London (2016-2019), examining archaeological evidence from Qumran caves. Her interdisciplinary work bridges biblical studies, Near Eastern archaeology, and legal history.
