Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Jillian Stinchcomb

Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Hebrew Bible and Mediterranean Cross-Cultural Textual Traditions

Degrees

• University of Pennsylvania, PhD

• Yale Divinity School, MA

• University of Notre Dame, BA

Profile

Jillian Stinchcomb is the Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellow in Hebrew Bible and Mediterranean Cross-Cultural Textual Antiquity. A scholar of Religious Studies and Biblical Studies, she works on the emergence and reception of biblical texts and figures in cross-cultural contexts utilizing historical-critical, post-colonial, and feminist critical frameworks.

Selected Publications

“Gender Performance and the Queen of Sheba.” Forthcoming in Hebrew Studies.

“Race and the Hebrew Bible: The Case of the Queen of Sheba.” Religions 12, no. 10:795. https://doi.org/10/3390/rel12100795

“The Queen of Sheba in Targum Sheni Esther and the Qur’an.” In New Perspectives on Islamic Origins: Proceedings from the 2018 Nangeroni Seminar, ed. Mette Bjerregaard Mortensen, Guillaume Dye, Isaac W. Oliver and Tommaso Tesei, 85-96. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.