Annie Calderbank read Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Cambridge. She then completed an MPhil and a DPhil in Hebrew Bible at the University of Oxford. Before joining King’s College London, she spent a year as a Swiss Government Excellence Scholar at the University of Zurich.

Research interests and PhD supervisions

• Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and other Jewish texts from the Graeco-Roman period
• The history of religious and theological ideas
• Hermeneutics, with a focus on approaches to the relationships between texts

Annie Calderbank’s research explores central religious concepts, such as holiness and divine presence, within the Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism. She examines these concepts within their ancient textual contexts, while engaging critically with their reception and interpretation in contemporary theology and religious studies. A particular focus of this work has been “priestly” texts from the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Annie’s research also explores hermeneutical questions. She is particularly interested in approaches to the literary relationships among biblical and ancient Jewish texts and in the accounts of text and tradition that such approaches imply.

She welcomes enquiries from prospective research students interested in the study of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism.

Teaching

Annie Calderbank teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules relating to the study of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism.

Selected publications

• Calderbank, Annie. “The Elusive Presence of God in Ezekiel’s Exagoge: A Proposal for Reading a Fragmented Text.” Journal for the Study of Judaism (forthcoming, 2025).
• Calderbank, Annie. “Reading for Resonance: Divine Presence and Biblical Hermeneutics in the Temple Scroll.” Dead Sea Discoveries 29 (2022): 123–154.