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Julie B. Deluty, PhD

Assistant Professor

Julie B. Deluty PhD

Department

Office

Bellarmine 110

Phone

610-660-1399
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Dr. Julie B. Deluty joined SJU in Fall 2019 as an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. She received her PhD in Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East from NYU’s Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Subsequently she served as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the College Core Curriculum at NYU. Dr. Deluty’s research explores the networks of officials that ancient prophets use to communicate with kings in order to legitimize governance. Her current book project, Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari, examines the communication among prophets, intermediaries, and kings in 2nd millennium BCE Mesopotamia and in the Hebrew Bible.

    • PhD, New York University, Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
    • MPhil, New York University, Hebrew and Judaic Studies
    • MA, The Jewish Theological Seminary, Bible & Ancient Semitic Languages
    • BA, New York University, Jewish History & Romance Languages (summa cum laude)
       
    • Steering Committee Member, Hebrew Scriptures and Cognate Literature, Society of Biblical Literature (2022- Present)
    • Steering Committee Member, Prophetic Texts & their Ancient Contexts, Society of Biblical Literature (2019- Present)
    • Session Co-Chair, “State and Territory in the Ancient Near East: Mapping Relationships and Challenging Paradigms,” American Society of Overseas Research (2019- 2021)
    • Member, Columbia University Hebrew Bible Seminar (2018- Present)
    • Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, College Core Curriculum, NYU (2018-2019)
    • Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari. CHANE 137. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
    • " 'Do You Hear the People Sing?' At the Interface of Prophecy and Music in Chronicles." Pages 53-70 in “A Community of Peoples”: Studies on Society and Politics in the Bible and the Ancient Near East in Honor of Daniel E. Fleming. Edited by Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, Lauren A. S. Monroe, Michael J. Stahl, and Dylan R. Johnson. Harvard Semitic Studies. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
    • "Prophecy in the Ancient Levant and Old Babylonian Mari," Religion Compass 14/6 (2020): 1-11.
    • "The Embodiment of Fear in Ugaritic and Semitic Literature: Reexamining the Social Dynamic," ARC: The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University 40 (2012): 69-91.
    • Honorary Inductee, Alpha Sigma Nu (2025)
    • Faculty Merit Award for Teaching, Saint Joseph’s University (2024)
    • Team-taught Honors Teaching Innovation Grant, Saint Joseph's University (2022)
    • Faculty Research Grant, Saint Joseph’s University (2021)
    • Andrew Mellon Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, NYU (2017)
    • Visiting Graduate Fellow, Global Research Institute, NYU Tel Aviv (2015)
    • Antonina S. Ranieri International Scholars Fund Grant, Center for Ancient Studies, NYU (2015)
    • Phi Beta Kappa Prize for best honors thesis in the humanities, NYU (2007)
    • Phi Beta Kappa, NYU (2006)
    • Comparative Prophecy
    • Hebrew Bible
    • Old Babylonian Mari
    • Women and Gender in the Ancient Near East
    • Social and Political History
    • Israelite Religion