Daniel Fisher-Livne, Ph.D.

Daniel Fisher-Livne is Assistant Professor of Bible at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati. He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Research Affiliate at the National Humanities Alliance. Prior to joining HUC-JIR, Fisher-Livne served as Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Director at the National Humanities Alliance. In this role, Fisher-Livne created and led Humanities for All, an initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build capacity for public engagement in humanities scholarship across U.S. higher education.

Fisher-Livne is currently working on three projects. First, he is preparing a monograph based upon his dissertation, “Memories of the Ark: Texts, Objects, and the Construction of the Biblical Past.” Second, Fisher-Livne is co-editing the Routledge Companion to Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship. Third, he is editor of Judges for the Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition, a new international text-critical project from SBL Press. Fisher-Livne serves on the SBL Working Group on Biblical Studies in Undergraduate Education, and the AAR Applied Religious Studies Committee. He is also a member of the editorial board of Bible Odyssey, SBL’s public-facing portal sharing the latest research on the people, places, and history of the Bible.