Karina Martin Hogan

Karina Martin Hogan joined the Theology Department as an Assistant Professor of Old Testament in 2005 and has been Associate Professor at Lincoln Center since 2011. Her research focuses on ancient Judaism, especially its interaction with Greek and Roman culture in the Second Temple period. She teaches primarily about the Old Testament/Tanakh and its early Jewish and Christian interpreters. In addition to teaching in the Lincoln Center Honors Program, she is affiliated faculty with the Jewish Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies programs.

MA and PhD: University of Chicago Divinity School
BA: Swarthmore College

Wisdom and apocalyptic literature of ancient Judaism

Ancient Jewish education

Maternal metaphors in the Bible and ancient Judaism

The book of Ruth in global feminist interpretation

“Wisdom of Solomon,” in The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century, ed. John J. Collins, Gina Hens-Piazza, Barbara Reid, O.P. and Donald Senior, C.P. London: T&T Clark, Bloomsbury, 2022.

“Ahistorical Interpretation of the Exodus Narratives in the Wisdom of Solomon.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 31.2 (2021): 76-88.

“Baruch” and “Letter of Jeremiah,” in The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha, ed. Jonathan Klawans and Lawrence Wills. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

“Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period,” in Oxford Handbook of New Testament, Gender and Sexuality, ed. Benjamin H. Dunning. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

“Mother Zion and Mother Earth in 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra,” in Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, ed. Jeremy Corley and Geoffrey Miller. DCLS 31. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2019. 

Textual History of the Bible, Vol. 2B, ed. Frank Feder and Matthias Henze. Leiden: Brill, 2019. (Area editor for texts attributed to Ezra; author of overview entries on 4 Ezra and 5 Ezra)

Pedagogy in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. Co-edited with Matthew Goff and Emma Wasserman. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017.

The Other in Second Temple Judaism: Festschrift in Honor of John J. Collins. With Daniel C. Harlow, Joel Kaminsky and Matthew Goff. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011.

Theologies in Conflict in 4 Ezra: Wisdom Debate and Apocalyptic Solution. Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplement Series 130. Leiden: Brill, 2008.