Kristine Garroway, Ph.D.
Professor of Bible
Contact Information
school/program: Louchheim School for Judaic Studies, Rabbinical School (US)
academic field: Bible and Cognate Studies
campus: Los Angeles
email: kgarroway@huc.edu
Kristine Henriksen Garroway is Professor of Bible at the HUC-JIR’s Skirball Campus in Los Angeles where she joined the faculty in 2011. She received her doctorate in Hebrew Bible and Cognate Studies at the HUC-JIR/Cincinnati in 2009. She has spent time studying and researching in Israel and has participated in excavations at Ashkelon, Tel Dor, and Tel Dan. Garroway’s scholarship focuses on children using archaeology and texts of ancient Israel and Mesopotamia. She has published in various scholarly journals and is a regular contributor to thetorah.com. Garroway’s books include: Children in the Ancient Near Eastern Household (Eisenbrauns 2014) and Growing Up in Ancient Israel: Children in Material Culture and Biblical Texts (Society of Biblical Literature 2018), and The Cult of the Child: the Death and Burial of Children in Ancient Israel (Oxford, forthcoming). She is the recipient of the Biblical Archaeological Society’s 2019 Publication Award for Best Book Relating to Hebrew Bible.
Children in the Bible/ The Child in Ancient Israel
Women in the Bible/ Girls Behaving Badly
Israel’s Archaeology: Linking the Past to the Present
Mice, Tumors, or Hemorrhoids? What was in the Ark of the Covenant (I Samuel 4-7)
Bathsheba and Bridget Jones: Two Women on a Mission
Ancient Jewish Magic
The Queen of Heaven
Introduction to Torah
Nevi’im
1-2 Samuel
The Family in the Bible
Biblical Protagonists
Women in the Bible
Women in the ancient world
Digs and Disputes: the intersection of politics and religion in archaeology
Ancient Jewish magic
Ph.D., HUC-JIR, 2009