Claudia V. Camp is an American biblical scholar. She is John F. Weatherly Professor of Religion at

Texas Christian University Texas Christian University (TCU) is a private research university in Fort Worth, Texas. It was established in 1873 by brothers Addison and Randolph Clark as the Add-Ran Male & Female College. It is affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples ...

. Camp's scholarship emphasizes feminists interpretation and identity formation in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple period. Her recent scholarship has emphasized the metaphors of the Strange Woman and Lady Wisdom in the

Book of Proverbs The Book of Proverbs ( he, מִשְלֵי, , "Proverbs (of Solomon)") is a book in the third section (called Ketuvim) of the Hebrew Bible and a book of the Christian Old Testament. When translated into Greek and Latin, the title took on different ...

and the book of

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. Camp has degrees from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

and

Harvard Divinity School Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school's mission is to educate its students either in the academic study of religion or for leadership roles in religion, gov ...

Bibliography

* 2011 ''Historiography and Identity: (Re)formulation in Second Temple Historiographical Literature''. T&T Clark. * 2000 ''Wise, Strange and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible''. JSOTSup 320. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. * 1987 ''Wisdom and the Feminine in the Book of Proverbs''. LHBOTS. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

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Living people American biblical scholars Old Testament scholars Texas Christian University faculty Duke University alumni Harvard Divinity School alumni Feminist studies scholars Year of birth missing (living people) Female biblical scholars {{US-reli-bio-stub