Jonah

Karolien Vermeulen (volume editor) is Research Affiliate Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp. Her research focuses on meaning construal in the Hebrew Bible and the role of various linguistic-stylistic elements that guide readers in that process. She has published on the style of the biblical text, particularly on wordplay, metaphor, performative language, and spatial imagination. She is the author of Conceptualizing Biblical Cities: A Stylistic Study (Palgrave McMillan 2020) and How We Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture’s Style and Meaning (with Elizabeth Hayes, Eerdmans 2022). She also co-edited Approaches to Literary Readings of Ancient Jewish Writings (with Klaas Smelik, Brill, 2014) and Doubling and Duplicating in the Book of Genesis: Literary and Stylistic Approaches to the Text (with Elizabeth Hayes, Eisenbrauns, 2016). Her current project focuses on home and belonging as imagined and construed in the biblical text.