Claudia V. Camp is an American biblical scholar. She is John F. Weatherly Professor of Religion at

Texas Christian University Texas Christian University (TCU) is a private university, private research university in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It was established in 1873 by brothers Addison Clark, Addison and Randolph Clark as the AddRan Male & Female College. It i ...

. Camp's scholarship emphasizes feminists interpretation and identity formation in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple period. Her recent scholarship has emphasized the metaphors of the Strange Woman and Lady Wisdom in the

Book of Proverbs The Book of Proverbs (, ; , ; , "Proverbs (of Solomon)") is a book in the third section (called Ketuvim) of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)/the Christian Old Testament. It is traditionally ascribed to King Solomon and his students. When translated into ...

and the book of

Ben Sira Ben Sira or Joshua ben Sirach (; ) was a Hellenistic Jewish scribe, sage, and allegorist from Seleucid-controlled Jerusalem of the Second Temple period. He is the author of the Book of Sirach, also known as "Ecclesiasticus". Ben Sirach w ...

. Camp has degrees from

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and

Harvard Divinity School Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school's mission is to educate its students either in the religious studies, academic study of religion or for leadership role ...

Bibliography

* 2011 ''Historiography and Identity: (Re)formulation in Second Temple Historiographical Literature''. T&T Clark. * 2000 ''Wise, Strange and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible''. JSOTSup 320. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. * 1987 ''Wisdom and the Feminine in the Book of Proverbs''. LHBOTS. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

References

Living people American biblical scholars Old Testament scholars Texas Christian University faculty Duke University alumni Harvard Divinity School alumni Feminist studies scholars Year of birth missing (living people) Women biblical scholars {{US-reli-bio-stub