Research Interests
Hebrew Bible, Psalms, Ancient Hebrew, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Ugaritic
Teaching
- Lectures—Introduction to the Old Testament, Studies in the Old Testament, Elementary Biblical Hebrew, Advanced Old Testament Hebrew
- Classes—Dead Sea Scrolls, Deuteronomy, Esther, Psalms, Ugaritic Grammar and Texts
- Tutorials—Narrative World of the Bible, Hebrew of the Hebrew Bible
Research Supervision
Inquiries from prospective DPhil students and postdoctoral researchers—in the areas of textual criticism, ancient Hebrew, Psalms, Esther, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, and Ugaritic—are welcome, via the email address given above.
Current Projects
Psalms 101–150. The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition. SBL Press.
Reading Psalms in the School of the Scribes: Using Ancient Material Evidence to Inform Modern Biblical Studies. Oxford University Press. Under contract.
Publications
Monographs and Other Volumes
2025. Psalms 90–100. The Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible. Baylor University Press.
2022. John Screnock with Vladimir Olivero. A Grammar of Ugaritic. SBL Resources for Biblical Studies. Atlanta: SBL Press.
2020. Carmen Palmer, Andrew Krause, Eileen Schuller, and John Screnock, eds. Dead Sea Scrolls, Revise and Repeat: New Methods and Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls. SBL Early Judaism and Its Literature. SBL Press.
2020. Arjen Bakker, Markus Bockmuehl, Martin Goodman, Hindy Najman, and John Screnock, eds. Dead Sea Scrolls Research in Oxford. Thematic issue of Revue de Qumran (32/2). Louvain: Peeters.
2017. Traductor Scriptor: The Old Greek Translation of Exodus 1-14 as Scribal Activity. Vetus Testamentum Supplements. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
2015. John Screnock and Robert D. Holmstedt. Esther. The Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.
Recent Journal Articles:
2024. “The Art of Repetition in Ancient Hebrew Literature: Command-Execution Pairing in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Beyond.” HeBAI 13.
2024. "The Textual History and Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible." In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford University Press.
2024. “Translation Technique and Reconstructed Hebrew Vorlagen in the Greek Text of Psalm 4.” Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies 57.
2021. “The Septuagint, Scribalism, and Command-Execution Pairing.” Henoch 42 (2020): 150–67.
2021. “Translating and Transcending Textual Criticism,” Textus 30: 1–5.
2020. “A Reading of Psalm 104:1–13 according to the Text Contained in 4QPsalms-d.” Revue de Qumran 32: 251–65.
2020. “Verbal Argument Structure in the War Scroll.” Dead Sea Discoveries 27.
2020. “Some Oddities of Ancient Hebrew Numeral Syntax.” Hebrew Studies 61: 23–44.
