Lecturer I in Middle East Studies
About
Forger is a scholar of Second Temple Judaism and the New Testament, with an additional focus on early Jewish-Christian relations. Though later polemics suggest that Jews and Christians differentiated themselves based on their views of God's body, her work complicates this picture by analyzing how first-century Jews envisioned God in bodily form or humans as divine. She is also interested in the intersection of embodiment theory and the senses, as well as in questions of where, how, and when the ways parted between Jews and Christians, and how scriptural hermeneutics impacted, complicated, impinged upon, and fortified those separations.
