Tracy M. Lemos grew up outside Providence, Rhode Island. She received her B.A. with honors from Brown University (Phi Beta Kappa) and her Ph.D. with distinction from Yale University. She specializes in the areas of Hebrew Bible and early Judaism. Before coming to Rhodes, she taught at Yale Divinity School, Boston University, and Miami University of Ohio. She just completed her first book, Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient Palestine: 1200 BCE-200 CE, which will be published by Cambridge University Press. She has also published articles on the topic of impurity and on the connection between shame and violence. Her next book will be on masculinity in the Hebrew Bible and early Jewish texts.
Ph.D., Yale University
B.A., Brown University
Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient Palestine: 1200 BCE to 200 CE (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming March 2010).
“‘A Sword Against Them…So They Become Women’: Gender and Mutilation in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East,” in Disability and Biblical Studies, ed. Jeremy Schipper and Candida Moss (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
“Intermarriage,” in The Dictionary of Early Judaism, ed. John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2009)
“The Universal and the Particular: Mary Douglas and the Politics of Impurity,” The Journal of Religion 89.2 (2009): 236-251.
“Shame and Mutilation of Enemies in the Hebrew Bible,” Journal of Biblical Literature 125.2 (2006): 225-241.