Jewish Studies Program
Jewish Studies Program
Emerson

Abigail Emerson

PhD Candidate in Religious Studies, Duke University
Email: abigail.emerson@duke.edu

Abigail Emerson is a Hebrew Bible/Old Testament PhD candidate in Duke’s Graduate Program in Religion. She earned a BA with distinction from Yale University in 2014 and an MA in Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity (tannaitic midrash halakhah) from the University of Virginia in 2020. She studies both Bibles as material objects and also biblical rhetorics of text provenance: speeches quoted, tablets smashed, scrolls inscribed. Her dissertation focuses on divine quotation in the book of Leviticus and its function as a rhetoric of text provenance.