Jeremy Steinberg is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Haverford College and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classical Languages from Penn. Jeremy studies Jewish literature at the intersection of Religious Studies and Classical Studies, predicating his scholarship on the premise that Jews were fully integrated participants in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. In his dissertation, Jeremy examines the discursive frameworks that surround the Bible as understood by Jewish reading and writing communities in the Hellenistic period (roughly 300 BCE-100 CE). He argues that in this period, Jewish texts came to be subject to a set of Greco-Roman assumptions about what texts are and how they act—a substantial shift which he describes as the making of the Bible into literature. Jeremy is also interested in ancient formulations of Jewish identity, particularly in the western Diaspora.