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Lauren Monroe
My teaching interests include Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew at all
levels, Syro-Palestinian Archaeology, and Ancient Israelite Religious and
Social History. I am particularly interested in the way what it meant to
be “Israelite” changed over time, and how such changes are reflected in
the stratigraphy of the biblical text and the archaeological tel. In my
book (in progress) I explore the 7th century BCE religious reforms of the
Judean King Josiah, whom the Bible credits with purifying and centralizing
Israelite worship at the Jerusalem temple. I am interested in how
Josiah’s acts of destruction fit within the larger context of Israelite
ritual, and how a range of ancient voices from the priestly and
deuteronomistic circles of late pre-exilic and exilic Israel are preserved
in the biblical account of the reform.
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