Dr. Holm earned her Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Languages from Johns Hopkins University in 1997 and began teaching at IUP in 1999 after a year as a visiting assistant professor at DePauw University. Her areas of concentration include the Hebrew Bible, Aramaic, and ancient Near Eastern literature. She has edited the book The Literary Language of the Bible: The Collected Essays of Luis Alonso-Schökel (BIBAL Press, 2000), and her monograph, Courtiers and Kings: The Biblical Daniel Narratives and Ancient Near Eastern Story-Collections, is forthcoming. Her recent publications include: “Daniel 1-6: A Biblical Story-Collection,” in Jo-Ann A. Brant et al., eds., Ancient Fiction: The Matrix of Early Christianity and Jewish Narrative, pp. 149-166 (Society of Biblical Literature, 2005); “Ancient Near Eastern Literatures: Genres and Forms,” in Daniel Snell, ed., A Companion to the Ancient Near East, pp. 269-288 (Blackwell Publishing, 2007); “The Sheikh Fadl Inscription in Its Literary and Historical Context,” Aramaic Studies 5.2 (2007), pp. 192-224; and “The Fiery Furnace in the Book of Daniel and the Ancient Near East,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 128.1 (2008), pp. 81-100. A bilingual edition of ancient Aramaic literary texts is under contract with the Society of Biblical Literature for its series “Writings from the Ancient World.”
Dr. Holm is the advising coordinator for the Department of Religious Studies and regularly teaches the following courses at IUP: Biblical Hebrew; Understanding the Bible; Archaeology and the Bible; Women in the Bible; Apocalypse and Beyond; and Islam. She is also the coordinator of the 2007-2009 IUP conference series “Teaching Religious Studies Courses at a State University in Pennsylvania,” sponsored by the Wabash Center for the Teaching of Theology and Religion.
Fall 2009
RLST 114-001 Biblical Hebrew M W 5:05-6:20 p.m.
RLST 250-001 Understanding the Bible M W 3:35-4:50 p.m.
RLST 345-W01 Women in the Bible M 6:35-9:15 p.m.
Fall 2009 Office Hours
M W 1:00-3:30 p.m.
Or by appointment.