Seth Bledsoe is Assistant Professor in the Department of Textual, Historical, and Systematic Studies of Judaism and Christianity in the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies at Radboud University.
His research examines the literary and socio-historical character of ancient Jewish and Christian literature, with particular attention to wisdom and narrative traditions. He has published several articles and a monograph on the Book of Ahiqar, an early Aramaic text that shares many themes and stylistic features with biblical literature, especially Proverbs and Ben Sira.
Seth will be in Bonn in January 2025 as part of the Argelander Academy project "Dis/abled Bodies in Ethical Texts of the Ancient Mediterranean." Seth will give a paper on "walking" motifs in Ancient Jewish texts at the project symposium on January 17th (details to come).