Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
Villanova University

Ethan Schwartz studies the Hebrew Bible in both the ancient Near Eastern setting in which it emerged and the Second Temple setting in which it became Jewish and Christian scripture. His research focuses on the prophetic literature, with interests in the representation of prophetic authority and social critique, the comparative study of biblical and ancient Near Eastern prophecy, the relationship between biblical prophecy and the political history of the region, the redaction of the prophetic corpus, and the reception of the prophetic literature in Judaism and Christianity. Other areas of research include the Pentateuch, the ancient Jewish context of the New Testament, and the intellectual history of academic biblical studies. In much of this work, he brings biblical texts into historical-critical conversation with the philosophical literature of classical Greece. He is also an active participant in Jewish-Christian dialogue.