Maxine Grossman, scholar

Maxine Grossman is an American scholar.

Biography

Maxine L. Grossman received her PhD (2000) from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currrently Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Maryland (College Park, MD), USA. Her teaching responsibilities include Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Second Temple Judaism; Judaism and gender; and introductory and upper level courses on religious studies, world religions, and methods and theories in the study of religion. Her most recent research addresses the Dead Sea Scrolls from the perspective of gender studies.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Reading for History in the Damascus Document (2000 Grossman), book

Articles in edited volumes

• The Dead Sea Scrolls as Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity (2003 Davila), edited volume