Please join us for a hands-on graduate student workshop on the Bible and the history of the printed book with Theodor Dunkelgrün.
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.
