Isla Carroll & Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies

Director of the Program in Jewish Studies

Dr. Henze's academic interests are broad, though the focus of his published work has been on the Jewish literature from around the turn of the Common Era, with an emphasis on early Jewish apocalyptic literature.

Dr. Henze's most recent monograph, Jewish Apocalypticism in Late First Century Israel, is the first of two interrelated volumes he is writing on the Syriac Apocalypse of Barcuh, an early Jewish apocalypse. The second volume will be a critical commentary on the same text, to appear in the Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature (CEJL) series.

Specialization:

Hebrew Bible/Old Testament; the Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha; early Jewish Apocalypses; the Dead Sea Scrolls; Syriac language and literature.

Academic History:

Ph.D., Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 1997
M.A., Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 1996
Master of Divinity/Graduate Theological Degree, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1992