Athalya Brenner
SHALOM. I was Professor of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament in the Biblical Studies section of Religious Studies at the Department of Art, Religion and Culture (KRC), Faculty of the Humanities, University of Amsterdam. As such, I was the Chairperson of the Biblical Studies group; coordinator of the Bibles & Cultures (B&C) MA Program, co-coordinator (with Professor Irene Zwiep of Hebrew and Jewish Studies) of the Jewish Cultures (JC) MA program, and a member of the ASCA board.
As planned, in August 2008 I retired from the HB/OT Chair and am now Professor Emerita at the UvA. The Chair has now been discontinued.
I am now teaching one semester per year at Tel Aviv University, in the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, the Biblical Studies Section, and working there with graduate (MA and PhD) students.
My regular UvA e-mail address continues to be valid. A second e-mail address is abrenner@post.tau.ac.il.
My Tel Aviv homepage can be accessed through the first link below, and a short CV through the second link.
MY Tel Aviv Homepage
Brenner, short CV
Academic Degrees
BA in Biblical Studies and English from the University of Haifa; MA in Biblical Studies from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem; PhD from the University of Manchester, England (department of Near Eastern Studies, 1979), and Honorary PhD from the University of Bonn, Germany (2002).
My main interests are...
feminist criticismof the Hebrew bible and early Judaisms; transdisciplinaryapproaches to the Hebrew bible; bibles andcultures; Semitic philology; and computer applications in the Humanities.
I am the compiler/editor of the Feminist Companion to the Bible, First and Second Series (19 volumes; published1993--2003 by Sheffield Academic Press, now Continuum); The Bible in the 21st Century (BTC) Series with Continuum/T& T Clark, 5 volumes); the Amsterdam Studies in Bible and Religion new Series (Sheffield Phoenix Press; click on the 'Publications' page above); and a member of the advisory board of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP)/UvA Digital Bible Project and the editorial boards of Biblical Interpretation, Brown Judaic Studies, and JSOT (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament).
In the past, I was member of the JBL (Journal of Biblical Literature; until end 2003) and Semeia (until 2002) editorial boards.
For my Publications, Research-in-Progress on my own and together with colleagues, or for Past Events and Current Info, please click on the appropriate buttons on top of this homepage.