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Deborah Louise Forger | Faculty Directory

A Visiting Scholar in the Jewish Studies Program (2021–2024) Forger is a scholar of Second Temple Judaism and the New Testament, with an additional focus on early Jewish-Christian relations. She was a fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies and received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, where she was awarded the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship, a multi-year national dissertation award. Though later polemics suggest that Jews and Christians differentiated themselves based on their views of God’s body, her work complicates this picture by analyzing how first-century Jews envisioned God in bodily form or humans as divine. She is also interested in the intersection of embodiment theory and sensory analysis, with a particular focus on aurality, as well as in questions of where, how, and when the ways parted between Jews and Christians, and how scriptural hermeneutics impacted, complicated, impinged upon, and fortified those separations.

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Update: 2024-05-19