Gary Anderson

Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Department of Theology

Degrees

B.A., Albion College; M.Div, Duke University; Ph.D, Harvard University

Research Profile

Prof. Anderson's research interests concern the role of ritual and sacrifice in biblical religion, the composition and redaction of the book of Leviticus, the reception of the Bible in early Judaism and in Christianity, and the theological task of relating modern approaches to the study of biblical texts to the tradition of the church. He has had particular interest in the way apocryphal and pseudepigraphic texts, as well as early Christian and Jewish art, can be used as sources for early biblical commentary. He has recently completed a book on early Jewish and Christian interpretations of the story of Adam and Eve, The Genesis of Perfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Imagination. He is currently working on a book whose provisional title is: From Israel's Burden to Israel's Debt: Metaphors of Sin in the Bible and Early Judaism.

Contact Information

338 Malloy Hall
631-7582
anderson.194@nd.edu