Professor Alison Salvesen FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2025
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Summary
Alison Salvesen is originally from London. She was educated at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, in Classics followed by Hebrew, Aramaic and Syriac.
Since her DPhil (Oxford, 1988) her work has focused on ancient translations and interpretations of scriptures, and also their use within Jewish and Christian communities.
She is currently President of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies.
See her website.
Current posts
University of Oxford Professor of Early Judaism and Christianity, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Polonsky Fellow in Early Judaism
Mansfield College, Oxford Tutor in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Previous posts
2006–15 Polonsky Fellow in Jewish Bible Versions, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
2006 - 2015
University Research Lecturer, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
2002 - 2015
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
1996 - 2025
Leverhulme Researcher in the Semantics of Ancient Hebrew
1996 - 1999
Pilkington Research Fellow in Biblical Studies at Christ Church, University of Oxford
1992 - 1994
Fellow in Aramaic and Syriac, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
1989 - 2002
Temporary Lecturership in Aramaic and Syriac, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
1988 - 1990
Astor Junior Research Fellowship, New College, University of Oxford
1986 - 1991