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Robert C. Kashow
I obtained a B.A. (Bible) from Cairn University, an M.A. in Religion (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and Ancient Judaism) from Yale University, an M.A. in Anthropology (Anthropology of Religion) from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Ancient Judaism) also from Brown University. I conduct research that centers primarily on the topic of religion, politics, and violence in ancient Israel from the time of the Jewish exile (c. 600 BCE) until the the destruction of Jerusalem's temple (70 CE), although the scope of my analytical projects often extends back to the early days of Israel history. The anthropological influence on my work is evident in the kinds of questions that I ask of my subject matter, as I seek to construct a more robust history of antiquity that has relevance for ongoing scholarly conversations that are taking place across disciplinary boundaries in the present-day humanities. In addition to my historical interests, I conduct research on the reception of Israel's heritage among modern-day North American evangelical Christians, attending to issues related to Cultural Heritage and the relationship between ancient religious texts (especially the Bible) and modern politics.
My dissertation, "The Violent Imagination: Agency and Representation in Ancient Judaism" investigates the ways in which images of violence found in apocalyptic and related literature affected ancient Jews and Christians in their earliest settings and my Anthropology thesis, "Religious Heritage, Meaning-Making, and Competing Histories Among the Museum of the Bible's Evangelical Tourists," utilizes ethnographic methods, to uncover the relationships between tourist religious ideologies and cultural heritage, using the Museum of the Bible as a test case.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kashow-6a447718b/
My dissertation, "The Violent Imagination: Agency and Representation in Ancient Judaism" investigates the ways in which images of violence found in apocalyptic and related literature affected ancient Jews and Christians in their earliest settings and my Anthropology thesis, "Religious Heritage, Meaning-Making, and Competing Histories Among the Museum of the Bible's Evangelical Tourists," utilizes ethnographic methods, to uncover the relationships between tourist religious ideologies and cultural heritage, using the Museum of the Bible as a test case.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kashow-6a447718b/
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