John Screnock

John Screnock (PhD, Toronto) is Tutor in Old Testament at Wycliffe Hall, at the University of Oxford. He is also a fellow of the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford. From 2018–2021 he was Research Fellow in Hebrew Bible at Oxford, and from 2015–2018 he was Kennicott Fellow in Hebrew at Oxford. He directed the Critical Editions of the Hebrew Bible research project, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, from 2018–2021. His research interests include the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Second Temple Judaism,  the Psalms, Hebrew linguistics, and textual criticism. He is the author of Traductor Scriptor: The Old Greek Translation of Exodus 1–14 as Scribal Activity (Brill, 2017), A Grammar of Ugaritic (SBL, 2022), and articles in Journal of Biblical Literature, Vetus Testamentum, Biblica, Journal of Semitic Studies, Hebrew Studies, Textus, Revue de Qumran, and Dead Sea Discoveries.