Amelia Brownridge

Amelia Brownridge

First Name: 
Amelia
Last Name: 
Brownridge
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PhD Candidate
Biography : 

Amelia is a doctoral student at the Department for the Study of Religion. She earned her BA in Honours Humanities with a Minor in Religious Studies in 2019 from Carleton University and completed her MA at the DSR under a SSHRC grant in 2021. Amelia is broadly interested in early biblical interpretation and the formation of scripture in early Judaism. Her current research examines the exile as a phenomenological category in Second Temple literature, paying particular attention to the apocryphal book of 1 Baruch.  

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Second Temple Judaism 
  • Colonialism in the Ancient World 
  • Post-exilic Jewish literature including the Dead Sea Scrolls 
  • Religion and Trauma Studies 

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