About Anathea Portier-Young

Anathea Portier-Young is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School. Her research focuses on prophetic literature, apocalypticism, early Jewish literature, embodiment, violence and nonviolence, and justice. She also teaches and writes in the area of Christian preaching and is a frequent contributor to workingpreacher.org. Her recent book, The Prophetic Body: Embodiment and Mediation in Biblical Prophetic Literature (Oxford, 2024), is part of a larger project on the theme of embodiment in biblical prophetic literature. Her monograph Apocalypse against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism (Eerdmans, 2011) won the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise. She co-edited with Gregory Sterling Scripture and Social Justice: Catholic and Ecumenical Essays (Fortress, 2018). She holds degrees from Yale University, Jesuit School of Theology/Graduate Theological Union, and Duke University.  She is also a runner, dancer, quilter, gardener, and mom.