Jacqueline Eliza Vayntrub

Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies

Departments/Programs

Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Degrees

University of Chicago, Ph.D.
University of Chicago, M.A.
Hebrew University Jerusalem, M.A.

Expertise

Hebrew Bible, wisdom literature, biblical poetry and poetics, philology, and the history of biblical scholarship.

Profile

Prof. Vayntrub’s research focuses on the formation of the Hebrew Bible, its various genres and modes of discourse against the broader background of ancient Near Eastern literary production, and its reception in and impact on Western scholarship. Broadly, her work seeks to recover the values of ancient literary culture through the language of the texts and examines how these values were reshaped in their reception.
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Courses Taught

NEJS	10a	Biblical Hebrew Grammar and Texts
NEJS	110b	Readings in the Hebrew Bible
NEJS	111a	The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
NEJS	114a	Death, Memorial, and Immortality in Biblical Literature
NEJS	115b	Gender, Sexuality and the Bible
NEJS	117b	Dead Sea Scrolls
NEJS	121b	Biblical Poetry
NEJS	122b	Biblical Narrative Texts: The Historical Tradition
NEJS	208a	Biblical Hebrew Lexicography

Awards and Honors

Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, visiting scholar (2015)

Chicago Center for Jewish Studies Research and Travel Grant (2015)

Luckens International Prize in Jewish Thought and Culture, honorable mention. (2015)

PhD awarded with honors, University of Chicago. (2015)

Carol and Eric Meyers Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, Israel (2014 - 2015)

Fellowship in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University (2014)

Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2014 - 2015)

Robert Brandt Cross Scholarship, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago (2012 - 2015)

Research residency, University of Chicago Center in Paris (2011)

German Language Course Scholarship for Study in Austria, Center for Austrian Studies-European Forum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2007)

Humanities Division Doctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago (2007 - 2012)

Scholarship

Vayntrub, Jacqueline Eliza. Beyond Orality: Performance and the Composition of Biblical Poetry. Routledge, 2017. (forthcoming)

Vayntrub, Jacqueline Eliza. "Before Authorship: Solomon and Prov. 1:1." Biblical Interpretation (2016). (forthcoming)

Vayntrub, Jacqueline Eliza. "The Book of Proverbs and the Idea of Ancient Israelite Education." Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 128. 1 (2016): 96-114.

Vayntrub, Jacqueline Eliza. "‘To take up a parable’: The History of Translating a Biblical Idiom." Vetus Testamentum 66. 4 (2016): 627-645.

Vayntrub, Jacqueline Eliza. "‘Observe due measure’: The Gezer Inscription and Dividing a Trip around the Sun." Epigraphy, Philology, and the Hebrew Bible: Methodological Perspectives on the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Jo Ann Hackett. Ed. Jeremy Hutton and Aaron Rubin. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2015. 187-203.

Vayntrub, Jacqueline Eliza and H. H. Hardy II. "Biblical Hebrew šninɔ: a ‘Cautionary Tale’ of Root Identification." Vetus Testamentum 64. 2 (2014): 279-83.