Doren Snoek

I am a scholar of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament; as a scholar and teacher, I situate the Hebrew Bible in its ancient Near Eastern context while attending to the history of the field and recent developments in it. My monograph, Social Memory, Scribalism, and the Book of Chronicles, appraises memory approaches within biblical studies and develops a new theoretical framework within which to consider evidence of collective or cultural memory in antiquity. It offers a new account of how Chronicles, a revisionary history within the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, might have influenced communal understanding of the past in Persian period Yehud, responding to entrenched views of this work as derivative and subordinate to its sources.

My current project considers elite representation of the natural world in ancient Israel and Judah. Working across iconography, texts, and zooarchaeology, it will offer an integrative account of hunting, fishing, and fowling as a productive cultural complex in Iron period Israel. From the first monograph's inquiry into materiality and cultural memory, it expands its scope from the representation of history to an under-studied phenomenon that seems to have been a significant object of elite representation in Levantine antiquity.

I continue active research on Chronicles and textual criticism and digital humanities / computational approaches to texts and manuscripts.