Deepen your understanding of communities influenced by religious belief and consider fundamental questions about the meaning and purpose of human life.
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Dr Ann Jeffers
Tutor in Sacrifice, Praise and Wisdom (Level 5)
Dr Ann Jeffers is a Senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She was Director of Research and Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at Heythrop College where she lectured from 1990.
Her research interests, while focusing on the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism, cover a wide range of subjects, from magic in the ancient world, to gender and ancient religions, with a special interest in the religion practiced by women and in mystery religions.
More recently, her research interests have focused on reception of the Bible in literature and the visual arts. Her recent work includes studies of ancient constructs of space, visual exegesis with a special focus on sixteenth century Bible illustrations, and the role of the imaginary in biblically inspired images. She now teaches a variety of courses on biblical reception, magic, mystery religions and gender in the Classics department at the City Lit, London.
Dr Jeffers is also an active member of The International Exchange on Media and Religion to which she has contributed a number of publications.
Module taught:
- Sacrifice, Praise and Wisdom (Level 5)
Publications
Magic and Divination in Ancient Palestine and Syria (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996). Volume VIII in Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East, ed. By B. Halpern and M.H.E. Weippert.
āGender und Medien der Religiƶsen Kommunikationā, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Anna-Katharina Hopflinger, Ann Jeffers (Eds.), in Handbuch Gender und Religion, Gƶttingen:Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, 201-208.
āSapere Aude: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815ā1902) und The Womanās Bibleā, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Anna-Katharina Hopflinger, Ann Jeffers (Eds.), in Handbuch Gender und Religion, Gƶttingen:Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, 61-68.
āKosmologie und geschlechtsspezifische Weltbilder Beispiele aus der jĆ¼dischen Antikeā,
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Anna-Katharina Hopflinger, Ann Jeffers (Eds.), in Handbuch Gender und Religion, Gƶttingen:Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, 256-273.
āāNor by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by Prophetsā: The Story of the Woman at the Pit in 1 Samuel 28ā in Seeing With Different Eyes (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008).
āSeeing is Believing. Representations of Women in the Luther Bible of 1534ā, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati and Christopher Rowland (Eds.) in Approaches to the Visual in Religion. Gƶttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011, 169-186.
āWicked Witches of the West: Construction of Space and Gender in Jezreelā, Mark K. George (Ed.) in Constructions of Space IV. Further Developments in Examining Ancient Israelās Social Space, New York/London/New Delhi/Sydney:Bloomsbury, 2013, 76-91
āThe Construction of the āAlienā in the Social Imaginary of 16th Century Germany: The Woman of Endor from Religious Mediator to Witchā, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati (Ed.), in Religion in Cultural Imaginary. Explorations in Visual and Martial Practices, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2015, 39-54.
āThe Oldest Trick in the Bookā, Dolores ZoĆ© Bertschinger, Natalie Fritz, Anna-Katherina Hƶpflinger, Marie-Therese MƤder (Eds.), in Augen Blicke. 29 Perspektiven auf Religion. Festschrift zum 50. Geburtstag von Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati. 2017, 106-111.
āForget It: The Case of Womenās Rituals in Ancient Israel, or How to Remember the woman of Endorā, Yvonne Sherwood (Ed.) in The Bible and Feminism. Remapping the Field, Oxford: Oxford °®Ęļ¼§ Press, 2017, 277-295.
āWomen, Magic and Myth in Ugaritic Texts and the Hebrew Bibleā, Laura Quick, Ekaterina E. Kozlova, Sonja Noll, Philip Y. Yoo, in To Gaul, to Greece and into Noahās Ark: Essays in Honour of Kevin J. Cathcart on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, Journal Of Semitic Studies Supplement 44, Oxford °®Ęļ¼§ Press, 1919, 71-80.
āĆkofeminismus. Ćber die Ausbeutung von Frau und Naturā, Anna-Katherina Hƶpflinger, Ann Jeffers, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati (Eds.) in Handbuch Gender und Religion. Gƶttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021, 115-126.
āThe Politics of Death. Death and Politics in Victorian Englandā, in Highgate Cemetery, in Highgate Cemetery. Images Practices in Past and Present, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2020, 79-92.
āAnimal, Vegetable or Mineral? Performativity of Living Imagesā, in Highgate Cemetery, in Highgate Cemetery. Images Practices in Past and Present, Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 329-348.
āĆkofeminismus. Ćber die Ausbeutung von Frau und Naturā, Anna-Katherina Hƶpflinger, Ann Jeffers, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati (Eds.) in Handbuch Gender und Religion. Gƶttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021, 115-126.
āGender und Religion in Tradierungsprozessen: Einleitungā, Anna-Katherina Hƶpflinger, Ann Jeffers, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati (Eds.) in Handbuch Gender und Religion. Gƶttingen:Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021, 265-270.
āMiriam in Literatureā, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR).
āNoahās Wife in Literatureā, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR).
āOaths and Vows in Literatureā, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR).
āOmens in Literatureā, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), to be published 2023.
āRuth in Literatureā, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) to be published 2024.
āThe Road to Nowhere? A Critique and a Re-imagining of Religion in Europe in Sir Thomas Moreās Utopiaā, Anna-Katherina Hƶpflinger, Stephanie Knauss, Marie-Therese MƤder (Eds.) in Religion in Representations of Europe. Shared an Contested Practices, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2023, 37-64.
āBiblical (re) imaginings in Margaretās Atwood, The Handmaidās Taleā, to be published in JRFM (Journal of Religion, Film, Media) in 2024.