Annette Yoshiko Reed (born 1973) is an American religious historian. She holds the Krister Stendahl Chair at

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. Reed's research interests span the topics of

Second Temple Judaism Second Temple Judaism is the Judaism, Jewish religion as it developed during the Second Temple period, which began with the construction of the Second Temple around 516 BCE and ended with the Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE), destruction of Jerusalem in ...

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, and Jewish/Christian relations in

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, with particular attention to retheorizing religion, identity, difference, and forgetting. She is the daughter of political scientist Steven Reed and his wife Michiko.

Personal life

In addition to her scholarship, she is a certified

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instructor and

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fighter, who won the American Thai Boxing Association (TBA) championship in her age/weight division in 2023. In an interview, she credited training and fighting with improving her university teaching. She has spoken on women and boxing in an event with poet Raisa Tolchinsky.

Career

Reed began her teaching career in the Department of Religious Studies at

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(2003–2007) before moving to the Department of Religious Studies at the

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(2007–2017). During her time at the University of Pennsylvania, she served as coordinator of the Philadelphia Seminar of Christian Origins as well as Director of the Center for Ancient Studies. She has held multiple fellowships at the

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. In 2017, she joined the faculty of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Department of Religious Studies at

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. In July 2021, she joined

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's Divinity School. Reed is a member of the

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of the book series ''Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism'' (TSAJ). In 2018, she delivered the Taubman Lecture Series at the

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. Her 2020 monograph, ''Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism'', was a finalist for the

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Nahum M. Sarna Nahum Mattathias Sarna (Hebrew: נחום סרנא; March 27, 1923 – June 23, 2005) was a modern biblical scholar who is best known for the study of Genesis and Exodus represented in his ''Understanding Genesis'' (1966) and in his contribution ...

Memorial Award. In 2020, she was awarded an

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fellowship for her project, "Forgetting: Retheorizing the Ancient Jewish Past and its Jewish and Christian Reception." Reed has written for ''Salon'', ''

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'', and

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. She has also spoken about her work at the

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. Reed is a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research.

Select Works

Publications

*
Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism
'. Cambridge:

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, 2020. * ''Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages'' (with John Reeves). Oxford:

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, 2018. * ''Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism''. TSAJ 171.

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: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. Paperback reprint: Fortress, 2022. * ''Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Edited Volumes

* ''Envisioning Judaism: Essays in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday''. Edited with Ra’anan S. Boustan, Klaus Herrmann, Reimund Leicht, and Giuseppe Veltri, with the collaboration of Alex Ramos. 2 vols. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013 * ''Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire: The Poetics of Power in Late Antiquity''. Edited with Natalie B. Dohrmann. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia :

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, 2013. * ''Blood and the Boundaries of Jewish and Christian Identities in Late Antiquity''. Edited with Raʻanan S. Boustan. ''Henoch'' 30.2 (2008). * ''Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions''. Edited with Raʻanan S. Boustan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. * ''The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages''. Edited with Adam H. Becker. TSAJ 95. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003. Paperback reprint: Fortress, 2005.

References

External links

NYU Faculty Profile

Annette Y. Reed, Academia.Edu

Amie Montemurro, "Art of the Forgotten: HDS Interview with Annette Yoshiko Reed," HDS Dean's Report, November 4, 2021

Richard Newton, "The Interview: The 2020 Aronov Lecture with Dr. Annette Yoshiko Reed," Bulletin for the Study of Religion, vol. 50 no. 2 (2021) 42-49
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