Position:

Kennicott Junior Research Fellow

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute

Email:

katherine.southwood@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Ezra-Nehemiah
• Judges
• Interdisciplinary approaches to the Hebrew Bible
• Social Anthropology.

Courses Taught:

• Nehemiah 2-6 (Friday 10-11)
• Tutorials

Recent Publications:

• Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9-10 (Oxford Theological Monograph Series) Oxford: Oxford University Press
• ‘The Holy Seed and Foreign Women: Ethnic-intermarriage or intermarriage?’ in Mirjam Schambeck and Johanna Rahner (Eds) Between Integration and Exclusion. Migration, religious identity and education - Theological Reflections
• 'Longing, Belonging or Despair?: Return Migration as a Tool For Understanding Ezra’s Intermarriage Crisis' in David Chalcraft (Ed) Social Scientific and Cultural Approaches in Biblical Studies
• ‘An Ethnic affair?: Ezra’s Intermarriage Crisis Against a Context of Self-Ascription and Ascription of Others’ in Christian Frevel (Ed) Mixed Marriages. Intermarriage and Group Identity in the Second Temple Period T&T Clark
• ‘The Holy Seed: The Ethnic Significance of Endogamous Boundaries and their Transgression in Ezra 9-10’ in Lipschits, O., and Oeming, M., (Eds), The Judeans in the Achaemenid Age: Negotiating Identity in an International Context, Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns
• Review of ‘Elements of Ancient Jewish Nationalism’ by David Goodblatt in The Journal of Theological Studies 61/1 2010
• Review of ‘Judaism: The First Phase’ by Joseph Blenkinsopp in The Journal of Theological Studies 61/2 2010
• Review of ‘Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism’ by Dvora Weisberg in The Journal of Theological Studies 61/2 2010
• Review of ‘“Let the Little Children Come to Me”: Childhood and Children in Early Christianity’ by Cornelia Horn and John Martens in The Journal of Theological Studies 61/2 2010
• Review of ‘A Theocratic Yehud?’ by Jeremiah W. Cataldo in Journal for the Society of OldTestament Study 2010