Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 4 Bancroft Avenue, Room 307, Toronto, ON, M5S 1C1
416-946-3234
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
- Mississauga (UTM)
Fields of Study
- Biblical Studies
- Jewish Studies
Areas of Interest
- Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, especially ancient Jewish legislation
- Second Temple Jewish Literature
- Editing of biblical manuscripts and physical manuscript reconstruction
- Methods of textual and redaction criticism
- Problems related to reconstructing history from ancient Jewish literature
Biography
Sarianna Metso joined the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations as well as the Department of Historical Studies in 2005. She is also an Associate Member of the University of Toronto Centre for Jewish Studies. Her areas of research are the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, particularly issues of ancient Jewish legislation, community identity development, and methodology of historical reconstruction. She is currently preparing a new critical edition of the Book of Leviticus for the multi-volume Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition (HBCE) project, and she is a member of the team of scholars preparing the 30-year revision of the New Revised Standard Edition (NRSV) of the Bible.
Education
PhD, University of Helsinki
Publications
- The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with Translation (SBL Press, Atlanta : 2019)
- Editorial Attitudes Toward Legal Material in Samaritan and Qumran Traditions (Brepols, Turnhout : 2019)
- Leviticus, Book of: Second Temple and Hellenistic Judaism (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin & Boston : 2018)
- The Burden of Proof: Challenges in Explaining the Redactional Evidence of the Treatise on the Two Spirits (Peeters, Leuven : 2017)
- When the Evidence Does Not Fit: Method, Theory, and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Eerdmans, Grand Rapids : 2010)
- The Dead Sea Scrolls: Transmission of Traditions and Production of Texts (Brill, Leiden : 2010)
- Problems in Reconstructing the Organizational Chart of the Essenes (Brill, Leiden : 2009)
- The Serekh Texts (T&T Clark, London and New York : 2007)
- 4QJobᵃ and 4QJobᵇ (Clarendon Press, Oxford : 2000)
- The Textual Development of the Qumran Community Rule (Brill, Leiden : 1997)