Please join us for a panel discussion about Theodor Dunkelgrün's The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Brepols, 2025). Dunkelgrün will be in conversation with Bruce Gordon, Valeria Lopez Fadul, and Carlos Eire. The discussion will be moderated by Jacqueline Vayntrub.
Theodor Dunkelgrün is an intellectual and cultural historian, whose work focuses on the philology and material text of the Hebrew Bible. He was educated at the Universities of Leiden and Chicago, where he received his PhD, supervised by Glenn Most, James T. Robinson, David Nirenberg and Anthony Grafton. He has held three postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Cambridge, the visiting chair in Jewish-Christian Relations at the University of Antwerp, as well as visiting fellowships at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He currently serves as assistant professor of Jewish History at the University of Antwerp. Theo has edited five volumes, including The Jewish Bookshop of the World: Aspects of Print and Manuscript Culture in Early Modern Amsterdam (2020; a special issue of Studia Rosenthaliana) and, together with Paweł Maciejko, Bastards and Believers: Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). His monograph on the Antwerp Polyglot Bible, The Multiplicity of Scripture, was published in 2025.
Event Location
Jewish Studies Reading and Reference Room, SML 335b Sterling Memorial Library