People
ProfessorsRachel Havrelock |
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601 South Morgan Street (MC 162) |
Assistant
Professor |
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Biblical
studies, folklore
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Rachel Havrelock has a joint appointment in the Department of English and the Program in Jewish Studies. She is a Hebrew Bible scholar whose research focuses on biblical narrative, symbolic geography and reception of the Bible. Her recently completed manuscript, River Jordan: The Myth of a Dividing Line, considers the Jordan River as a border which both divides and connects in texts from the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple period, Talmud and early Christianity. The final chapter shows the relationship of religious representations of the Jordan to the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian conflict by presenting evidence from ethnographic and archival research in the region. Rachel is the co-author of Women on the Biblical Road (University Press of America, 1996); a featured exegete in The Torah: A Women’s Commentary (Union of Reform Judaism Press, 2007); and the author of articles concerning gender in the Hebrew Bible.
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
“Outside the Lines: The Status of Women in Priestly Nationalism,” in Embroidered Garments: Priests and Gender in Biblical Israel. Hebrew Bible Monographs 25. Deborah W. Rooke (Ed.) Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009, pp. 89-101.
“Pioneers and Refugees: Arabs and Jews in the Jordan River Valley,” in Understanding Life in the Borderlands: Boundaries in Depth and in Motion. I. William Zartman (Ed.), Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2009.
“Book of Genesis,” in The Oxford Handbook to the Reception History of the Bible. Michael Lieb, Emma Mason & Jonathan Roberts (Eds.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
“Book of Joshua,” “Book of Judges,” “Book of Samuel,” “Twelve Tribes,” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion and Culture. Judith Baskin (Ed.) Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
PUBLICATIONS
The Two Maps of Israel's Land
Havrelock, Rachel, "The Two Maps of Israel's Land," Journal of Biblical Literature 126:4
(2007): 649-667. DOWNLOAD
My Home Is Over Jordan
Havrelock, Rachel, (2007) 'My Home is Over Jordan: River as Border in Israeli and Palestinian National Mythology', National Identities, 9:2, 105-126. DOWNLOAD
Are There Witches in the Jewish Bible?
“Are There Witches in the Bible?” Guilt and Pleasure Magazine, Summer 2006, 144-147. DOWNLOAD
The Journey Within
Havrelock, Rachel. Parashat Vayetze. The Women's Torah Commentary (Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Andrea Weiss, Eds.) New York: Union of Reform Judaism Press, 2007.
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Women on the Biblical Road |