Jonathan Kruschwitz

PhD Thesis title: 

Narrative Interludes in Genesis: Irony as an “Answer” to the “Question” of Identity - I am exploring how irony in select narrative interludes in Genesis (the stories of Hagar, Dinah, and Tamar) problematizes narratological constructions of ancestral identity in the ancestral narrative.

Name of supervisor: Professor Hugh Pyper

Publications:

“2 Samuel 12:1-15: How (Not) To Read a Parable.” Review & Expositor. Forthcoming.

“The Type-Scene Connection between Genesis 38 and the Joseph Story.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 36 (2012): 383-410.

“Neglected Wisdom.” Christian Reflection 27 (2009): 83-87. Invited cluster book review.

Conferences, symposiums:

“The Levirate Institution in Ancient Israel: Its Purpose, Its Obstacles, and the Textual Polemic.” Paper delivered at the 2010 Mid-Atlantic Regional SBL Meeting.