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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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