Global & Senior Global Research Fellows
Academic Year 2007-2008
Dr. Job Jindo
Gruss Scholar in Residence
Dr. Job Y. Jindo received a B.A. in the Bible and Talmud from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 1997. In 1999, he earned an M.A. in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, United States. He then completed a Ph.D. in the Department of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2006 (awarded with distinction). His research interests include: ancient cosmology, poetics of ancient literature, biblical law, New Testament in light of rabbinic literature, Jewish Biblical Exegesis, and history of modern biblical scholarship. His recent articles include: “Toward a Poetics of the Biblical Mind: Language, Culture, and Cognition” (Vetus Testamentum 59, 2009) and “Biblical Metaphor Reconsidered: Metaphor as a Mode of Orientation” (Iggud—Selected Essays in Jewish Studies, 2009), and a thoroughly revised version of his dissertation under the title Biblical Metaphor Reconsidered: A Cognitive Approach to Poetic Prophecy in Jeremiah 1–24 (Harvard Semitic Monograph Series 2010). His current research focuses on the cognitive approach of the poetics and the Weltanschauung of ancient literature as set forth in his dissertation.
