ERIC X. JARRARD
Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae
WELLESLEY COLLEGE | 218 FOUNDERS HALL
WELLESLEY, MA 02481
education
TH.D. | HEBREW BIBLE, 2020
Harvard University | Harvard Divinity School
Dissertation: “Remember This Day on Which You Came out of Egypt’: The Exodus Motif in Biblical Memory”
Committee: Jon D. Levenson (chair), D. Andrew Teeter, Martien Halvorson-Taylor, Laura S. Nasrallah
M.T.S. | HISTORY, SCRIPTURE, AND TRADITION, 2014
Emory University | Candler School of Theology
Thesis: “The Genius of Forgetting: Cultural Memory and Amnesia in Daniel 5”
Advisor: Carol A. Newsom
B.A. | RELIGIOUS STUDIES, 2008
Virginia Commonwealth University | School of World Studies
Minors: Catholic Studies; Judaic Studies
academic appointments
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION
Assistant Profess of Religious Studies, 2024–Present
Lecturer, 2023–2024
Visiting Lecturer, 2022–2023
Elisabeth Luce Moore Postdoctoral Fellow in Biblical Studies, 2020–2022
publications
Monographs
The Bible and Hip Hop. Co-written monograph with Travis T. Harris (Minneapolis: Lexington/Fortress Press). Under Contract.
Peer Reviewed Articles
“Pharaonic Paradox: Josiah’s Tragic: Role Reversal in 2 Chronicles 35,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 85 (2023): 640–665.
“A Legal Allusion: The Correlation of Law and History in Ezekiel 20,” Vetus Testamentum, forthcoming.
“Now You're in the Sunken Place: Constructed Monsters in Daniel 7 and Get Out,” Biblical Interpretation 31 (2022): 94–119.
“Reconciliation in the Joseph Story,” Biblical Interpretation 29 (2021): 148–186.
“Double Entendre in Exodus 34:29–35: Revisiting the קרן of Moses,” ZAW 131 (2019): 388–406.
Book Chapters
“Seasons Change and ‘Winter is Coming’: Patterning in Game of Thrones and the Hebrew Bible.” Pages 11–37 in Theology and Game of Thrones. Edited by Matthew Brake. Minneapolis: Lexington/Fortress Press, 2021.
Other Publications
Review of Laura Carlson Hasler, Archival Historiography in Jewish Antiquity, AJS Review 45 (2021): 436–438.
“‘Midrash? More like Midtrash!’: Jewish Identity and Biblical Exposition in the Oeuvre of Darren Aronofsky.” Harvard Divinity Bulletin 46 (2018): 69–76.
awards & honors
Elisabeth Luce Moore Summer Research Grant
Wellesley College, 2020
Anna Marnoy Feldberg Fellowship
Harvard Center for Jewish Studies, 2019
Dissertation Travel Grant
Harvard Divinity School, 2019
Gochman Fund for Professional Development
Harvard University Committee on the Study of Religion, 2019
EDWARD H. KAVINOSKY FELLOWSHIP FUND
Harvard Center for Jewish Studies, 2019
CLARENCE G. CAMPBELL SCHOLARSHIP
Harvard Divinity School, 2015–2017
LECTURES &
PRESENTATIONS
invited lectures
Aarhus UNIVERSITY
“In the Shadows of Monuments: Nehemiah 9 and 3 Maccabees 6 in the Monumental Matrices of the Achaemenid and Ptolemaic Empires,” 17 May 2023.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY
“Archetypes and Architects: Historical Sequencing in Early Jewish Historiography and Its Monumental Precedents,” 31 May 2022.
Johns Hopkins University
“The Ten Commandments as Monumental Text,” 24 February 2021.
King’S College London
“A Legal Allusion: The Holiness Code and the Exodus Pattern in Ezekiel 20,” 24 October 2019.
Durham University
“Looking Back to Look Forward: Allusion and the Exodus Pattern,” 22 October 2019
University of Cambridge
“Statutory History: Legal Precedent and the Exodus Pattern in Ezekiel 20,” 16 October 2019.
Smith College
“The Exodus in Film,” 25 February 2019.
Trinity College
“Methodological Coda for Reading Culture and the Bible,” 11 February 12019.
Swarthmore College
“Popular Culture and Religious Studies,” 27 November 2018.
Boston College
“The Problem of Pattering in Wisdom Literature,” 25 October 2018.
conference activity
Panels Organized
“Time in the Hebrew Bible.” Social Sciences and Hebrew Scriptures unit, Society of Biblical Literature. San Antonio, TX, 22 November 2021.
“Death and Dying in the Hebrew Bible.” Social Sciences and Hebrew Scriptures unit, Society of Biblical Literature. Boston, MA, 22 November 2021.
“Identity in the Classroom.” Collaborative Panel Discussion with Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Northeast/Eastern Canada Meeting Society of Biblical Literature, 6 March 2020.
“Remembering Exile: Memory Studies, Exile, and Forced Migration.” Exile and Forced Migrations section, Society of Biblical Literature. San Diego, CA, 23–26 November 2019.
“Race in and in front of the Classroom.” Panel Discussion, Northeast/Eastern Canada Meeting Society of Biblical Literature, 22 March 2019.
“Gender in and in front of the Classroom.” Panel Discussion Northeast/Eastern Canada Meeting Society of Biblical Literature, 20 April 2018.
Papers Presented
“A Necrographic Case Study: The Wellesley Neo-Assyrian Relief,” Orientalism in the Disciplines of the Past, International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Copenhagen, Denmark, 22–26 May 2023.
“Archetypical Archenemies: Sequential Historiography in Nehemiah and 3 Maccabees,” Historiography and the Hebrew Bible section, Society of Biblical Literature. Denver, CO, 19 November 2022.
“The Wellesley Neo-Assyrian Relief: A Necrography,” Museums and Social Justice section, ASOR. Boston, MA, 17 November 2022.
“Time Immemorial/In Memorial: Time Modeling and Social Remembering in and beyond the Hebrew Bible,” Social Sciences and Hebrew Scriptures section. Boston, MA, 22 November 2021.
“The Curious Case of the Contrafacted King: The Death of Josiah in 2 Chronicles 35,” Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah section. Boston, MA, 03 December 2020.
“Memory in Exile: Current Debates and Future Directions.” Exile and Forced Migrations section, Society of Biblical Literature. San Diego, CA, 24 November 2019.
“We Will Rock You: Stone Monument Construction as Sites of Memory in the Deuteronomistic History.” Historiography and the Hebrew Bible section, Society of Biblical Literature. San Diego, CA, 24 November 2019.
“A Sea Change Event: Allusion and Inversion in 2 Chronicles 34–35.” Historical Books section, 23rd Congress of the International Organisation for the Study of the Old Testament. Aberdeen, Scotland, 8 August 2019.
“De futuro, de jure, de novo: The Correlation of Law and History in Ezekiel 20.” Prophets section, 23rd Congress of the International Organisation for the Study of the Old Testament. Aberdeen, Scotland, 5 August 2019.
“Exodus Redux: Inversion of the Exodus Event in 2 Chronicles 34-35.” Writings section, International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Rome, Italy, 3 July 2019.
“As They Do in Egypt: Intertextual Reconsiderations of Leviticus 18-20.” Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Law section, International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Rome, Italy, 2 July 2019.
“‘You Humans Take Something Wonderful and Ruin it Just a Little Bit’: Biblical Cyclicality and Predictability and The Good Place.” Paper presented at the Pop Culture Consortium Conference at Wayne State University. Detroit, MI, 2 March 2019.
“‘Why Is This Night Different?’: Memorialization and Reenactment in Mishnah Pesahim.” Paper presented in the Judaism in Antiquity section at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies. Boston, MA, 16 December 2018.
“Beyond Use and Abuse of History: Constructed Memory in Ezekiel 20.” Paper presented in the Theological Perspectives on the Book of Ezekiel section at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Denver, CO, 17 November 2018.
“Now You're in the Sunken Place: Constructed Monsters in Daniel 7 and Get Out.” Paper presented in the Bible and Film section at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Denver, CO, 19 November 2018.
“Josiah Kept a Passover: The Perils and Promise of Inter-Generational Memorialization in 2 Chronicles 35 and the Exodus.” Paper presented in the Hebrew Bible section at the New England and Eastern Canada Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. New Haven, CT, 20 April 2018.
“Palace to Penthouse: Sexual Violence, Consent, and Power in 2 Samuel 11 and HBO's Girls.” Paper presented in the Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible section at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Boston, MA, 20 November 2017.
“History, Memory, and Time (oh, my!): Applications of Memory Theory in Biblical Studies and Its Implications for Joshua 3–4.” Paper presented in the Duke University Graduate Conference in Theology. Durham, NC, 29 September 2017.
“Beyond the New Exodus: Revisiting the Exodus Motif in Jeremiah.” Hebrew Bible section at the New England and Eastern Canada Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. New Haven, CT, 31 March 2017.
teaching experience
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wellesley College
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
The Bible and Popular Culture
Gods of Stone: Monuments and the Sacred
The Bible and Film
Jesus of Nazareth: Fact, Faith, Fiction, & Film
Satan
Introduction to the New Testament
Associate Lecturer, Lesley University
World Religions? Comparison, Discourse, and Difference
Introduction to World Religions
INSTRUCTOR, HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL
Writing Workshop: MDiv Senior Thesis Seminar
Intermediate Hebrew II
Head Teaching FelloW, Harvard Divinity School
MDiv Senior Thesis Seminar
TEACHING FELLOW, HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL
Letters of Paul: Ethnicity, Empire, the Body, and the End of the World
MDiv Senior Seminar
Queer Bible
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
Summer Language Program: Intro Biblical Hebrew
Summer Language Program: Intermediate Biblical Hebrew
TEACHING FELLOW, HARVARD COLLEGE
Intro to the Hebrew Bible
From the Hebrew Bible to Judaism
TEACHING FELLOW, HARVARD ONLINE (EdX)
Religious Literacy: Judaism Through its Scriptures
