Our Leaders Navigate the Waterless Sea
Professors Crawford, V. Gorman and Nadine cross the trackless desert searching for lost worlds
W.F. Albright Institute, Jerusalem
W. F. Albright Institute, Jerusalem

Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
236 Andrews Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0337
(402) 472-4475
scrawford1@unl.edu

Curriculum Vitae


Courses:

Sidnie White Crawford teaches in the areas of Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, Biblical Hebrew and feminist criticism of the Bible. Her courses include:

  • HEBR 201 and 202, Biblical Hebrew Prose and Biblical Hebrew Poetry
  • RELG/JUDS 205, Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
  • CLAS 286, Literature of the Ancient Near East
  • RELG/JUDS 306, Second Temple Judaism
  • RELG/JUDS 340, Women in the Biblical World
  • RELG/JUDS 408/808, Dead Sea Scrolls

Research:

Professor Crawford's areas of scholarly expertise are in Second Temple Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls and textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. She is a member of the international publication team for the Dead Sea Scrolls, responsible for editing fourteen manuscripts from the Qumran collection. She has written extensively on various aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the Rewritten Bible texts and the role of women in the Qumran community.

One of Professor Crawford's current research foci involves the textual criticism of the book of Deuteronomy. She is a general editor (Pentateuch)for the Oxford Hebrew Bible Project, which will result in an eclectic critical edition of every book of the Hebrew Bible. In addition, she is the volume editor for the Book of Deuteronomy. She is also involved in the Biblia Qumranica project, and will be contributing the volume on Deuteronomy for the series "The Bible at Qumran," to be published by E. J. Brill. Her other research focus is the Damascus Document, one of the major works from the Qumran scrolls. she will be producing a commentary on the Damascus Document for the Hermeneia Commentary series, which is published by Fortress Press.

Selected Professional Activities:

Editor, Old Testament Board, Hermeneia Commentary series
Series Editor, Textual Criticism series, Society of Biblical Literature
Editorial Board, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
Trustee, W. F. Albright Institute of Archaelogical Research, Jerusalem


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