James D. Moore
Ph.D. student in Bible and ancient Near Eastern Studies in Brandeis University. He is primarily interested in literary, historical, and comparative approaches to ancient Near Eastern texts. He has written a Brandeis Master's Thesis on scribal culture and the invention of religious texts in the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible. He has read papers at national SBL meetings on topics including: North West Semitic grammar, Israelite scribal culture, and the Syriac Version of Leviticus.
Malka Zeiger-Simkovich
A doctoral student at Brandeis University studying late Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and early Rabbinics. Her interests focus on the interaction, cultural influence, and literary sharing between Jewish and non-Jewish individuals and communities in the 1st century BCE and 1st century CE, and how such sharing is evidenced in pseudepigraphic literature. Malka's languages include Syriac, Greek, and Hebrew.
Eva Gurevich
Eva Gurevich is a doctoral student at Brandeis University, and a Fellow at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. Her interests include the aesthetics of Israeli and Palestinian geopolitics, with a special focus on art and its representation of land relations and attachments. She worked at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at University of California, Berkeley, where she coordinated its grand re-opening, symposiums and other events.
Amber Taylor
Doctoral student in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and a Schusterman Center for Israel Studies Fellow. She graduated Cum Laude from Brigham Young University, and completed her MA at Brandeis in 2012, with her thesis, “Ezra Taft Benson and the State of Israel: A Mormon American Leader's Support for the Jewish State.” Her doctoral studies will continue to examine the history of American Christian relations with Israel. In addition to Spanish, Amber knows modern Hebrew, and plans to master Biblical Hebrew for her research.
David Harris
MA student focusing on the Bible and the Ancient Near East. He received his BA in Near Eastern Studies from The Johns Hopkins University. He is primarily interested in biblical exegesis and criticism, Semitic philology, Israelite religions and the relatedness of Israelite religious practices with the broader Near East as well as the Mediterranean world and textual criticism. In addition to studying ancient Semitics, David recently began studying Modern Hebrew and plans to continue his study of the language at Brandeis.
Nate Ramsayer
M.A. student in NEJS, his research interests include source criticism of the Torah, the intersection of ancient Near Eastern and biblical literature, Iron Age epigraphy, Hittitology, and Dead Sea Scrolls. For several years Nate has been a frequent guest lecturer at various venues across the country opening up the fundamentals of biblical scholarship to the wider public. He spent this past year studying archaeology at Boston University and Harvard University, and has returned from a summer of excavation at Tell es-Safi (biblical Gath) in the Shephelah in Israel as an ASOR Heritage Fellow.
