Martien Halvorson-Taylor
Associate Professor & Associate Chair
Address:
Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126
Charlottesville, VA 22903-4126
Research Interests
Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and early Judaism; history, religion and literature of ancient Israel; the Babylonian Exile and its interpretation; biblical interpretation in the Second Temple period; canonical process; collective memory and identity in the Jewish Diaspora; literary approaches to the Hebrew Bible; wisdom literature; biblical narrative; reception history of the Hebrew Bible in Judaism and Christianity; history of biblical scholarship; classical (biblical) Hebrew.
Education
- Bachelor of Arts (BA), Yale University
- Master of Divinity (MDIV), Harvard University
- Master of Arts (MA), Harvard University
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Harvard University
Courses
- Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
- The Book of Job & Its Traditions
- Genesis & Its Interpretation
- Joseph, Esther, Daniel, Judith
- Wisdom Literature
- Images of David
- I and II Samuel & Its Interpretation
- Methods in Biblical Scholarship
- History of Modern Biblical Scholarship
- Elementary Classical Hebrew I