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$30,000 grant awarded for researching and writing Wrestling with Paul: The Apostle, His Readers, and the Fate of the Jews

Louisville Institute Grant for Researchers

Grant awarded to modify course on Gender and the Bible to include instances of overlapping gender discrimination and anti-Jewish racism

Addressing Antisemitism Course Modification Grant

Grant awarded to participate in undergraduate teaching workshops

Wabash Center Lilly Endowment Grant

Course release for researching and writing Wrestling with Paul: The Apostle, His Readers, and the Fate of the Jews

BCLA College Fellowship

Grant awarded for researching and writing Wrestling with Paul: The Apostle, His Readers, and the Fate of the Jews

BCLA Summer Research and Writing Grant

$20,000 Grant awarded for archaeological study abroad courses in Bethsaida, Israel (2019-2020)

Global Innovation Grant Winner, Colby College

Atlantic Regional Scholar Nominee for paper presented at Atlantic Regional SBL (2017)

Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar Nominee

Awarded for best dissertation in Biblical Studies at Drew University (2017)

Rabbi Dr. Sheldon J. Weltman Prize

Awarded for teaching at Drew University (2015)

Maxine Clarke Beach Leadership Prize

Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Woman of Promise

Society of Biblical Literature

American Academy of Religion

Association for Jewish Studies

Down the Rabbit Hole…To the Humor of Apocalypse and the End of the World, LOL

Gospel of Mark

Grace Be to You in the Presence of the Past: Ghosts, Hauntings, and Traumatic  		                    	       Dissociations in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and the Gospel of John

Trauma and Counter-Trauma in the Book of Esther: Reading the Megillah in the Face of the Post-Shoah Sabra

Letting Judges Breathe: Queer Survivance in the Book of Judges and Gad Beck’s An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin

Slips of the Tongue, Slips of the Word: A Poststructuralist Psychoanalytic Reading of John 8:37-47

Virgin Heroes and Cross-Dressing Kings: Reading Ambrose’s On Virgins 2.4 as 			        Carnivalesque,” 41-50. Virgin Heroes and Cross-Dressing Kings: Reading Ambrose’s On Virgins 2.4 as Carnivalesque

Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation: Roasting Rome

Wrestling with Paul: The Apostle, His Readers, and the Fate of the Jews

Trauma Theory, Trauma Story: A Narration of Biblical Studies and the World of Trauma (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences)

New Testament Contexts (THST 1010)

On the Eighth Day, God Laughed: The Bible and Comedy (THST 3742 / THST 6998)

Gender, Sex, and the Bible (THST 3009 / THST 6998)

Paul the Apostle (THST 6016)

Sarah Emanuel holds a PhD with Distinction in Biblical Studies, with a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, from Drew University’s Graduate Division of Religion. She received her M.A. in Religious Studies from Wake Forest University, a graduate certificate in Ancient Jewish-Christian Encounters from Tel Aviv University International, and a B.A. in English and Liberal Studies from the University of Delaware, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and named a Woman of Promise. Prior to joining the LMU faculty, she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Colby College (2018-2020) and Visiting Assistant Professor of New Testament at Oberlin College (2017-2018). 

Dr. Emanuel's research explores the ways ancient Jewish and early Christ-centered sources have functioned since their inception, from their ancient contexts of production up through their contemporary contexts of reception. To that end, she implements both traditional historical-critical methodologies and contemporary critical approaches when examining the ancient materials. Much of her work is legible through the lens of literary and cultural studies: She is interested in how the Bible—a collection of literary and cultural artifacts—creates, reflects, responds to, and is consumed by communities of storytellers and story-listeners, and how interpreters might utilize a variety of theories and methods to explore its layered modes of meaning-making.

Dr. Emanuel is on the Board of Directors at Feminist Studies in Religion, Inc., where she is co-chair of the Lab. She is the book conversations editor at Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and the content area editor of biblical studies and critical theory at Ancient Jew Review. She is on the editorial boards of Biblical Interpretation and Journal of Theological Studies, and is the co-chair of the Hermeneutics of Trauma section at the Society of Biblical Literature.
 
Her first book, Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation: Roasting Rome, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2020. Her forthcoming monograph with Fortress Press is titled, Wrestling with Paul: The Apostle, His Readers, and the Fate of the Jews. 

When she is not researching or teaching, Dr. Emanuel can be found at the gym, surfing, testing her spice tolerance, and exploring LA with her wife, Zoë, and their many non-human animals.

She can be reached at sarah.emanuel@lmu.edu.

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