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Maxine Grossman

Maxine Grossman

Director and Associate Professor, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies
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Maxine Grossman (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) includes among her research interests the study of ancient Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls; methods and theories in the study of religion; gender studies; and articulations of lived religious experience in contemporary society.

Her books include Reading for History in the Damascus Document: A Methodological Study (Brill, 2002), and the edited collection, Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls: An Assessment of Old and New Approaches and Methods (2010). Her scholarly work on the Dead Sea Scrolls has included articles on priesthood, sectarianism, and postmodern approaches to the scrolls, and her current scholarship focuses on gender, sexuality, embodiment, and sectarian identity in the scrolls.

Prof. Grossman is a founding co-editor of the Journal of Ancient Judaism (for which, see: http://www.v-r.de/en/magazine-0-0/journal_of_ancient_judaism-500060/#sec...). Other editing projects have included work as senior editor of the second edition of the Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, with editor-in-chief Adele Berlin (2011) and a celebration volume for Prof. Berlin, Built by Wisdom, Established by Understanding (2013). 

Prof. Grossman serves as the advisor to the undergraduate minor in Religious Studies and the undergraduate major in Religions of the Ancient Middle East.

Publications

Misogyny. in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception.

Misogyny in Biblical Reception

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
Dates:
Misogyny in Biblical Reception

Monogamy, Bigamy, Polygamy. in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception.

Monogamy, Bigamy, Polygamy in Biblical Reception

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
Dates:
Monogamy, Bigamy, Polygamy in Biblical Reception

The Dead Sea Sectarians: Breaking the Boundaries of an Essene-Shaped Space.

Dead Sea Sectarians

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
Dates:
Dead Sea Sectarians

Jews and Judaism between Bedevilment and Source of Salvation: Christianity as a Cause of and a Cure against Antisemitism. in Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism: A Multi-Faceted Approach. Berlin: DeGruyter.

Christianity as a Cause of and a Cure against Antisemitism

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
Dates:

Christianity as a Cause of and a Cure against Antisemitism

Greek (Expanded) Esther. in The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha (pp. 125-47). Oxford.

The Greek Book of Esther

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
Dates:
The Greek Book of Esther

Sectarian Marital Practice: Rethinking Sexuality in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Dead Sea Discoveries, 26, 339-361.

Rethinking Sexuality in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
Dates:
Rethinking Sexuality in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Postmodern Questions and Sexuality Studies. in T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls (pp. 246-56).

Postmodern Questions and Sexuality Studies

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
Dates:
Postmodern Questions and Sexuality Studies

Review of Vulnerability and Valour: A Gendered Analysis of Everyday Life in the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities (1st ed., vol. 26, pp. 107-109). Brill.

Review: A Gendered Analysis of Everyday Life in the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
Dates:
Review: A Gendered Analysis of Everyday Life in the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities

Sexuality. in T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism (vol. 2, pp. 710-713). London: T&T Clark.

Sexuality in Biblical Reception

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
Dates:
Sexuality in Biblical Reception

Queerly Sectarian: Jewish Difference Through the Lens of Marital Disciplines. Journal of Jewish Identities, 11(1), 87-105.

Queerly Sectarian: The Dead Sea Scrolls

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
Dates:
Queerly Sectarian: The Dead Sea Scrolls

"The World of Qumran and the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls in Gendered Perspective.". in The Bible and Women: An Encyclopedia of Exegesis and Cultural History..

Gender in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
Dates:
Gender in the Dead Sea Scrolls