Jacqueline Vayntrub

Jacqueline Vayntrub is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Divinity School. She was educated at UCLA (BA, Jewish Studies), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MA, Bible), and the University of Chicago (MA, PhD, Northwest Semitic Philology). Before coming to Yale in 2018 she was an assistant professor at Brandeis University in the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. She is the author of Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms (Routledge, 2019) and Body Language: Voice, Embodiment, and Textuality in the Hebrew Bible (Yale University Press, 2026), as well as over two dozen articles and essays on biblical literature, its interpretation, and the history of biblical scholarship. Professor Vayntrub is currently completing three books: a commentary on Ecclesiastes for the Old Testament Library commentary series, a volume on text editions of Hebrew and Aramaic memorial inscriptions from Iron Age Judah and the Second Temple Period co-authored with Matthew Suriano, and a monograph on how the biblical authors conceptualized the phenomenon of transmission. She is an editor of three series: Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible (Brill), the Library of Hebrew Bible and Old Testament Studies (Bloomsbury), and the International Critical Commentary (Bloomsbury). She has held fellowships at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin.