PROFESSOR
- Hebrew Bible, Comparative Literature, Ancient Mediterranean Mythology
Robert Kawashima holds a joint appointment in the Department of Religion and the Center for Jewish Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the faculty of the University of Florida, he was a Faculty Fellow at UC Berkeley and a Dorot Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.
His work is broadly comparative, focusing on the Hebrew Bible in relation to both the ancient Mediterranean world and the literary and intellectual history of the West. Other research interests include literary theory, linguistics, epic, and the novel. He has written on various aspects of the Hebrew Bible — linguistic, literary, legal — as well as on Homer, ancient mythology, Proust, and literary theory. He is most notably the author of Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode (Indiana University Press, 2004), and The Archaeology of Ancient Israelite Knowledge (Indiana University Press, 2022).
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