Jillian Stinchcomb

Jillian Stinchcomb is an assistant professor at Towson University just north of Baltimore, Maryland. There, she teaches Hebrew Bible, ancient history, and Jewish Studies courses.

In 2020, she defended her dissertation, "Remembering the Queen of Sheba in the First Millennium," a reception history of the Queen of Sheba across Jewish, Muslim, and Christian texts from the biblical to the early medieval period. She works with material in Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Greek, Latin, and Ge'ez (classical Ethiopic). A scholar of Religious Studies and Biblical Studies, she works on the emergence and reception of biblical texts and figures in cross-cultural contexts.

From 2020 to 2022, she was the Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellow in Hebrew Bible and Mediterranean Cross-Cultural Textual Antiquity at Brandeis University. From 2022 to 2024, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, working on the “Interactive Histories, Co-Produced Communities” project headed by Katharina Heyden (University of Bern) and David Nirenberg (IAS). She is currently working on her first book, The Queen of Sheba between the Bible and the Kebra Nagast.