University of Pennsylvania

Faculty Member, Religious Studies

M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Assistant Professor in the Humanities

School of Arts and Sciences

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Annette Yoshiko Reed is M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. Centered in the Department of Religious Studies, she is also a member of the Jewish Studies Program and the Graduate Group in Ancient History. After undergraduate studies at McGill University and graduate studies at Harvard Divinity School (M.T.S. 1999) and Princeton University (M.A. 2001; Ph.D. 2002), Prof. Reed taught in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University until 2007, when she joined the Penn faculty. Her research spans Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity. Particular areas of interest are angelology and demonology; the redeployment of Second Temple Jewish traditions in late antique Judaism and Christianity; and the parallels and overlaps between Jewish and Christian self-definition in Late Antiquity. In much of her work, these issues are addressed through a focus on biblical interpretation -- broadly construed to include the composition and reception of parabiblical literature, the transmission and translation of biblical texts, the formation of canons, and the creation of historiographical systems based on biblical narratives. She is the coordinator of the Philadelphia Seminar of Christian Origins, as well as one of the Program Unit Chairs of the Society of Biblical Literature's Hellenistic Judaism Section and a member of the Editorial Board of the book series Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, published by Mohr Siebeck. She is currently working on two monographs - one on the origins of Jewish angelology and demonology, and the other on the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies and the history of "Jewish-Christianity."

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