John C. Reeves

John C. Reeves is the Blumenthal Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he has taught in the Department of Religious Studies since 1996. His primary field of research is in the history of religions in the Near East during late antiquity and the early medieval period, with a particular focus on the social and literary interactions among those religions and social currents that utilize the concepts of ‘prophet’ and ‘scripture’ in the construction of their ideologies. He is especially interested in the possible preservation and manipulation of what appear to be ‘ancient formulations’ of biblical and biblically-allied compositions among chronologically later (sometimes much later) literary contexts and the questions such ‘fossils’ provoke about our standard understandings of biblical and wider Near Eastern literary history.