Rebekah J. Haigh

Publications

M.T.S Thesis. Rebel Priests: The De Facto High Priesthood of the Early Maccabean Brothers, Emory University 2016                                              

Haigh, Rebekah. “Oral Aspect: Performative Approach to 1QM.” Dead Sea Discoveries 26, 2 (2019): 189-219

Haigh, Rebekah J. “Silencing the Land: Joshua as a Military Ritualist”, Biblical Interpretation 31, 2 (2022): 158-178

Haigh, Rebekah. “Material Aspects of Reading in Ancient and Medieval Cultures: Materiality, Presence and Performance , by Anna Krauß, Jonas Leipziger, and Friederike Schücking-Jungblut (eds.)”, Dead Sea Discoveries 30, 2 (2023): 172-174

Teaching Experience

Princeton University

2020                Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Teaching Assistant for Dr. Moulie Vidas

2019                Who Wrote the Bible, Teaching Assistant for Dr. Laura Quick  

Rochester University

2022                 Introduction to the Pentateuch, Instructor 

Lectures & Conferences

2024

“Is Martyrdom for the Gentiles? Revelation 7:9–15 and the Boundaries of Israel”Society of Biblical Literature (San Diego, CA; Nov 2024).

2023

“Jews, Gentiles, Christianoi? John of Patmos and Ignatius of Antioch” (with Elaine Pagels) Seminar on Early Christianity (September, Princeton).

“What is Religion?”(with Kelly Carlton) sponsored by the Princeton Religious Literacy Program (Princeton; Oct 2023).

2022

‘“He Has Whetted Her Weapons of War”: Soundscapes of Embodied Violence”’ Society of Biblical Literature (Denver, CO; Nov 2022).

“(W)rites of War: Violent Ritual and Its Imaginative Praxis at Qumran.” International Organization for the Study of Old Testament (Zurich, Switzerland; Aug, 9^th 2022)

2020                

“A Jewish War Scroll: Exploring Revelation as Performance.” Jewish Christianity Program Unit, SBL.

2019                

“Who Says I?” The Scribal Voice of the Genesis Apocryphon.” International Organization for the Study of Old Testament (Aberdeen, Scotland; Aug, 4^th 2019)

2018                

“Oral Aspect: A Performative Approach to 1QM milḥamah” Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Jerusalem, Israel; June 6, 2018).

“Orality and Textuality at Qumran” Fulbright/Moroccan American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange 2018 Enrichment Seminar (Rabat, Morocco; April, 8^th 2018).

“Desert Drama: 1QM milḥamah as a Performance Text.” Fulbright/U.S. Israel Education Foundation (Tel Aviv; Jan, 2018).

2017                

“A Peculiar Hymn: Reconsidering the Origins of “And You” in 1QM.” Paper presented in Emory’s Sofia Forum, Feb 2017.