David Lambert received an A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard College (1998) and a Ph.D. from Harvard University (2004) in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He then spent three years teaching in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University as a Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Post-doctoral Fellow. He specializes in the Hebrew Bible, its history of interpretation, and Second Temple Judaism. He also has interests in early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. His current research focuses on the development of repentance as a concept within Judaism and Christianity. In his book-in-progress, Before Repentance, he argues that a variety of biblical rituals and beliefs have been misinterpreted in light of later Western penitential practices. |
