Jeremy Steinberg

Jeremy Steinberg is a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies, specializing in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean. His dissertation, titled "How The Bible Became Literature: Jewish Assumptions About the Nature of Text in the Hellenistic Period," examines the manner in which the Hebrew Bible came to be assimilated into the discourses and categories of Greek literary composition in the period from the second century BCE to the first century CE. He situates his research interests at the intersection of Religious Studies and Classical Studies, predicating his scholarship on the premise that Jews were fully integrated participants in classical culture. He is also interested in ancient formulations of Jewish identity, particularly in the western Diaspora.

Jeremy serves as co-chair of the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins.