Jillian Stinchcomb

Jillian Stinchcomb is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, working on the “Interactive Histories, Co-Produced Communities” project. 

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 utilizing historical-critical, post-colonial, and feminist critical frameworks.

From 2020 to 2022, she was the Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellow in Hebrew Bible and Mediterranean Cross-Cultural Textual Antiquity at Brandeis University.