Adriane Leveen, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible
Contact Information
school/program: Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, Rabbinical School (US)
academic field: Bible and Cognate Studies
campus: National, New York
email: Aleveen@huc.edu
phone: (650) 248-4887
Adriane Leveen is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, having previously taught at Stanford University. Her books include Biblical Narratives of Israelites and their Neighbors: Strangers at the Gate (2017) and Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers (2008). She has published in a number of scholarly journals including Prooftexts, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, and the Harvard Theological Review. Her passions include teaching Biblical Prophets and the Book of Job. She is co-founder of Jewish Climate Action Network NYC, Bronx Jews for Climate Change, and facilitates JTREE USA. Leveen is married to Dr. Arnold Eisen, Chancellor Emeritus of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Healing and the Biblical Imagination
Reading the Other in Biblical Texts: Hagar, Jethro and Balaam
Finding Our Way: Literary, Theological and Political Approaches to Reading Biblical Texts
Portraits in Power: Saul, David and the Rise of the Monarchy in Ancient Israel
What can Jewish Texts offer the Environmental Movement Today?
Job in the cultural and popular imagination
A survey of Torah and the Prophets
A survey of Tanakh: Torah, Prophets, Writings
Focus on Megillot
The Books of Samuel
Job
Biblical Women in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Sources
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley