Dr Ann Jeffers is Senior Lecturer at Heythrop College, University of London. She obtained her PhD in University College Dublin and has taught Hebrew Exegesis in Trinity College Dublin before joining Heythrop College where she has lectured in Biblical Studies (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism) since 1990. She is also the convenor for the MA in Biblical Studies.

She is the author of Magic and Divination in Ancient Palestine and Syria
(Leiden: Brill, 1996) and is the co-editor with  D. Pezzoli-Olgiati and A-K.Hopflinger  of a textbook on Gender and Religion (Gender und Religion) published by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht in 2007.

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Westminster College, Cambridge 1999:
1.“Hermeneutics in the Bible: Jonah as a Case Study”
2. “The Dark Side of Song of Songs: rape, pornography and the patriarchal agenda”

International SBL, Groeningen 2004:
Magic from before the Dawn of Time. Understanding Magic in the Old Testament: A Shift in Paradigm (Deuteronomy 18:9–14 and Beyond in the Symposium on Magic in the NT.)

SOTS, January 2004:
Laughing at Abraham: Parody in the Testament of Abraham.

SBL San Antonio, November 2005:
The Case of the Clever Ancestress: Characterisation of Sarah in the Testament of Abraham A & B in Pseudepigrapha. Panel discussion of Allison Dale’s Commentary on the Testament of Abraham.

SBL San Diego, November 2007:
1.From Tradition To Redemption: Images of  Eve in Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights Trilogy in the Bible in the Contemporary World Seminar.

2. The Cosmological Imagination: Space, Gender and Power in the Hebrew Bible and the Pseudepigrapha, in Construction of Space in Antiquity Seminar.

SBL New Orleans, November 2009:
Seeing is Believing. Representations of Women in the Luther Bible of 1534, in The Bible and the Visual Arts Seminar.

Wescott College, Cambridge, September 2011:
The Witch and the Reformer. Cultural representations of Witchcraft in Bibles of the 16th and 17th Centuries with reference to 1 Samuel 28.

SBL San Francisco, November 2011:
How Israel Forgot: Magic as a case of Memory Loss. Symposium on Magic in the Hebrew Bible in the Hebrew Bible and Archeology Seminar.