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Patrick J. Angiolillo

Doctoral Student Fellow

Praying by the Name: Divine Epithets in Ancient Jewish Prayers

Patrick Angiolillo is a doctoral candidate studying the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Second Temple period Jewish literature, including the Hebrew Bible, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and New Testament. His dissertation research explores conceptualizations of divinity in ancient Jewish prayers within the context of shifts in Hellenistic Mediterranean literary culture. Patrick earned his MA in Religion from Yale Divinity School and his BA magna cum laude from Boston College.