Jacqueline Vayntrub - Sketching a Poetics of Description in Biblical Literature

Jacqueline Vayntrub is assistant professor of biblical studies at Brandeis University. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago (NELC) in 2015. Her first book, Beyond Orality: Performance and the Composition of Biblical Poetry, is forthcoming with Routledge in the new Ancient Word series (edited by Seth Sanders). Lunch will be provided. The lecture is sponsored by the Hebrew Bible Workshop. For information, contact Joseph Cross at jjcross@uchicago.edu