Jared W. Ludlow

Jared W. Ludlow is Associate Professor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University. He has been in the Ancient Scripture Department since 2006. Previous to that, he spent six years teaching religion and history at BYU–Hawaii, serving two years as chair of the History Department. Jared received his bachelor’s degree from BYU in Near Eastern studies, his master’s degree from the University of California–Berkeley in Biblical Hebrew, and his PhD in Near Eastern religions from UC–Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union. His primary research interests are ancient Judaism and early Christianity. His dissertation was published as a book, Abraham Meets Death: Narrative Humor in the Testament of Abraham. His articles have been published in collections of works related to ancient Jewish and early Christian narrative, the Pseudepigrapha, and in several Sperry Symposium volumes. He has also published in the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, the Religious Educator, and the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies.