We're delighted to welcome Kevin Mattison to the department! Dr. Mattison specializes in ancient Judaism and the Hebrew Bible. His research focuses on how ancient Jewish communities reimagined their foundational literature to meet changing needs in their changing world. He is currently writing his second book, Reimagining Sinai and Transforming the Torah in Ancient Judaism. This book studies the competing claims different ancient communities made on the Mount Sinai encounter to challenge anachronistic scholarly categories of “biblical” versus “non-biblical” and composition versus transmission versus reception, to better understand ancient Jewish texts, their authors, and their communities on their own terms. He is the author of Rewriting and Revision as Amendment in the Laws of Deuteronomy (Mohr Siebeck, 2018).