Imperial Terror and Communal Trauma at Qumran

Xandy Frisch is an assistant professor of Judaic studies at George Mason University. She holds a Ph.D. in Second Temple Judaism from New York University, an M.A. in Religion from Yale Divinity School, and an M.A. in Jewish Education from Baltimore Hebrew University. 

Frisch was a 2012–13 scholar-in-residence at the Tikvah Center for Jewish Law and Civilization at NYU and a 2009–11 fellow at the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Cardozo Law School. Frisch has held a long interest in the literary deployment of representation of the body in Second Temple literature, and this fellowship year will expand this interest to questions of trauma and healing.