Anathea Portier-Young

Anathea Portier-Young is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School. She is also a preacher and public speaker. Her research focuses on embodiment in biblical prophetic literature, ancient apocalypses, Second Temple Judaism, genre in early Jewish literature, biblical traditions of violence and nonviolence, and gender, sexuality, and embodiment in biblical literature more broadly. She is the author of The Prophetic Body: Embodiment and Mediation in Biblical Prophetic Literature (Oxford University Press, 2024) and the award-winning Apocalypse against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism (2011). She is co-editor with Gregory E. Sterling of Scripture and Social Justice: Catholic and Ecumenical Essays (Fortress Academic, 2018).

After studying Classics at Yale (PBK) and the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies (ICCS) in Rome, she earned an MA in Biblical Languages at the Graduate Theological Union and Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California and PhD in Religion (Hebrew Bible and Old Testament) at Duke University. She lives in North Carolina.