John Screnock (PhD Toronto, 2015) is Research Fellow in Hebrew Bible at the University of Oxford. He has taught Ugaritic at Oxford since 2015—co-teaching with Vladimir Olivero since 2018. Besides Ugaritic, John researches and teaches the Hebrew Bible, the Psalms, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Hebrew linguistics, and textual criticism. His publications include Traductor Scriptor: The Old Greek Translation of Exodus 1–14 as Scribal Activity (Brill, 2017) and articles in Journal of Biblical Literature, Vetus Testamentum, Biblica, Textus, Journal of Semitic Studies, Hebrew Studies, and Dead Sea Discoveries. John is currently finalizing A Grammar of Ugaritic, with Vladimir Olivero, for publication in 2021.
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