Jennie Grillo
Associate Professor
Primary Area: Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity
- Office
- 434 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
- (574) 631-7986
- jgrillo@nd.edu
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Biography
Jennie Grillo teaches courses in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Before coming to Notre Dame she taught at Duke Divinity School, UMass Amherst, Amherst College, and Harvard. She is the author of Daniel After Babylon: The Additions in the History of Interpretation (OUP, 2024) and The Story of Israel in the Book of Qohelet: Ecclesiastes as Cultural Memory (OUP, 2012), which won a Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award. Her current book project is a study of the roots of Jewish and Christian ideas of divine incorporeality in the Hebrew Bible, and her other interests include wisdom literature, ideas of idolatry in the Old Testament, the history of the Bible as a book, and reading the Bible through its reception in liturgy and theological writings. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the ACLS, the Louisville Institute, the National Humanities Center, and a Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography from Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.
Research Interests
The interpretation of the Old Testament in conversation with Christian theology; the history of Israelite religion
Selected Publications
Daniel After Babylon: The Additions in the History of Interpretation (OUP, 2024).
"Jesus in Israel’s Scriptures" in The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus, ed. Markus Bockmuehl (CUP, 2024).
"Deification in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament" in The Oxford Handbook of Deification, ed. Andrew Hofer, O.P., Paul Gavrilyuk and Matthew Levering (OUP, 2024).
"Out of print: the disappearing Daniel tradition in early Greek printed Bibles", Journal of Theological Studies 73 (2022).
"The Entire Place Had Become Fire’: Heavenly Worship in Greek Daniel 3", Catholic Biblical Quarterly 81 (2019).
Education
- DPhil, MSt, MA, Oxford University