Staff profile

Dr Anne Gardner

Senior Lecturer, Coordinator, Religion & Spirituality Studies

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

DMB E136, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

MA (Edinburgh), BD (Edinburgh), PhD (Edinburgh).

Membership of professional Associations

SBL; SOTS; ASOR; FBS

Area of study

History
Religion and Spirituality

Brief Profile

Anne Gardner took up a lectureship at La Trobe University in 1986.  She was in the Religious Studies Program prior to joining the History Program in 1995.  In 1996 she was an honorary fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Advisor to the National Gallery of Victoria for the Dead Sea Scroll Exhibition in 2001. Research interests include: Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean History and Historiography, Hebrew Bible, Inter-Testamental Literature including the Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, with a special interest in Apocalyptic. Other interests include Gender in the Ancient World, Ecology and the Ancient World.  Anne is the Old Testament Editor of the Australian Biblical Review.

Research interests

Ancient History

- Ancient History and Historiography of the Near East and Mediterranean

Religion and Society

- Apocalyptic literature and Intertextuality

Teaching Units

  • HIS1MSU - Monsters, Savages, Us: Tales of Others.
  • HIS2/3AGR - Antiquity, Gender and Religion.
  • HIS2/3AIA - Ancient Israel A.
  • HIS2/3IJN - Israel, Jews and the Nations.
  • HIS2/3JFF - Jesus: Fact or Fiction?
  • RST3RCA - Reading Course A.
  • RST3RCB - Reading Course B.

Recent Publications

  • Gardner, A., Forthcoming, ‘”Holy Ones” and “(Holy) People” in Daniel and 1QM’, in Shani Tzoref and Ian Young (eds), Keter Shem Tov: Collected Essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls in Memory of Alan Crown (Piscataway: Gorgias Press)
  • Gardner, A, 2012, ‘The “Little Horn” of Dan 7,8: Malevolent or Benign?’, Biblica 93.2, 49-66
  • Gardner, A 2011, 'SKL in the Hebrew Bible: Key to the Identity and Function of the Maskilim in Daniel', Revue Biblique 118(4): 496-514
  • Gardner, A 2011, 'The Eating of "Seeds" and drinking of water by Daniel and Friends: An Intimation of Holiness', Australian Biblical Review 59: 53-63
  • Gardner, A 2009, 'The Function of the Middle Building in Late Bronze Age Jericho', Buried History 25: 23-32.
  • Gardner, A 2008, ‘The Narratives of Solomon’s Reign in the Light of the Historiography of other Ancient Civilisations’.  Australian Biblical Review. 56: 1-18.
  • Gardner, A 2007, ‘Daniel: God, Humans and Earth’. Pacifica. 20 (3): 249-61.
  • Gardner, A 2007, 1 Chron 8:28 - 32; 9:35-38: Complementary or Contrasting Genealogies? Australian Biblical Review. 55: 13-28.
  • Gardner, A 2007, Decoding Daniel: The Case of Dan 7,5. Biblica. 88 (2): 222-233.
  • Gardner, A 2006, Isaiah 66:3: Condemnation of Temple and Sacrifice or Contrast of the Arrogant with the Humble? Revue Biblique. 113 (4): 506-28.
  • Gardner, A 2005, Isaiah 65:20: Centenarians or Millenarians? Biblica. 85 (1): 88-96.
  • Gardner, A 2005, The Identity of Bathsheba. Revue Biblique. 112 (4): 521-535.
  • Gardner, A 2002, The Nature of the New Heavens and New Earth in Isaiah 66:22. Australian Biblical Review. 50: 10-27
  • Gardner, A 2001, ‘Eco or Anthropological Justice: a Study of the New Heavens and the New Earth in Isaiah 65:17’, in The Earth Bible IV. Sheffield: Sheffield University Press.
  • Gardner, A 2001, Dan 7:2-14: Another Look at its Mythic Pattern. Biblica. 82 (2): 244-252.

Research projects

Her main research interest is in apocalyptic literature in the Ancient World, with a particular focus on the Book of Daniel and subsequent apocalyptic texts drawing on this work. She  is also currently investigating the early times of the city of Jerusalem from its first settlement to Solomon. For each of these projects, monographs are in preparation:

Books

a) Decoding Daniel

b) Jerusalem: from Early times to Solomon