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Helen Byler Buckwalter

PhD (2025)

Education

  • University of Virginia - PhD Religious Studies. Dissertation: "Poetic Pain: The Pathos of God in the Lament of Jeremiah"
  • Harvard Divinity School - MTS Jewish Studies
  • New Saint Andrews College - BA Liberal Arts

Research Interests

Hebrew Bible, inner-biblical interpretation, early Jewish biblical interpretation—“rewritten Bible” and rabbinic midrash, canon formation and scribal hermeneutics.