HEBREW BIBLE PROFESSOR: I am very happy to report that our position in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible has been filled.

St Mary’s College is pleased to announce the appointment of Kristin De Troyer as Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible with effect on 1 June 2008.

Prof. De Troyer comes originally from Belgium and studied at the Catholic University of Leuven in the 1980s. In 1990 she founded the Kok Pharos Publishing House in Kampen, the Netherlands. She completed her doctoral work at the University of Leiden on the Alpha Text of Esther (published in Dutch in 1997 and in English in 2000). In 1998 she was appointed to a teaching post in Hebrew Bible at the Claremont School of Theology where she is currently Professor of Hebrew Bible and also Professor of Religion at the Claremont Graduate University.

Prof. De Troyer’s research specialisms are in the areas of Second Temple history and literature, and textual criticism, especially the Septuagint (LXX) and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Her publications include: Rewriting the Sacred Text: What the Old Greek Texts Tell Us about the Literary Development of the Bible (Atlanta: SBL, 2003); The End of the Alpha Text of Esther: Translation and Narrative Technique in MT 8:1-17, LXX 8:1-17, and AT 7:14-41 (Atlanta: SBL, 2000); (with E. Beate, A. Lange and H. Lichtenbeger) Minor Prophets (Biblia Qumranica, 3B; Leiden: Brill, 2004). In addition she has edited a number of scholarly books and published numerous articles in academic journals.

Prof. De Troyer is the Program Chair for the International Society of Biblical Literature, co-director of the Biblia Qumranica Project, editor of Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology (Louvain: Peeters), a board member of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament and Catholic Biblical Quarterly, and a member of the executive committee of the International Organization of Septuagint and Cognate Studies.