Daniel After Babylon: Author Jennie Grillo in Conversation with Paul Dilley on the Additions in the History of Interpretation

Date: 17 April 2024
Time: 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
Location: Zoom
Presented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography

Join SoFCB Senior Fellows Jennie Grillo and Paul Dilley for a conversation about Grillo’s book Daniel After Babylon. This event is part of a series celebrating new books in critical bibliography and is sponsored by Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB).

This event was held on 17 April 2024. See below for a link to the YouTube recording.

Jennie Grillo is the Tisch Family Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, working in the field of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Her current interests include the book of Zechariah, ideas of divine embodiment in the Bible, the history of the Bible as a book, and reading the Bible through its afterlives in art, literature, and liturgy. Before writing Daniel After Babylon, her first book was The Story of Israel in the Book of Qohelet: Ecclesiastes as Cultural Memory (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Paul Dilley (Ph.D., Yale, 2008) is Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions at the University of Iowa, with a joint appointment in the departments of Classics, Religious Studies, and the Center for the Book. He specializes in the religions of Late Antiquity, particularly early Christianity, with an approach that integrates cultural history, philology, and the digital humanities. He is especially interested in the development of early Christianity within the various cultures of the Graeco-Roman world, including Egypt and Syria, as well as the reception of the classical tradition in these diverse areas. He has received multiple grants and fellowships, including from the Alexander von Humboldt, Citizens and Scholars (Newcombe), Jacob Javits, Loeb Classical Library, and Mellon Foundations, as well as the American Research Center in Egypt and Dumbarton Oaks.

You are invited to watch the April 2024 recording of the event below via our RBS YouTube channel.