Assistant Professor
Ph.D, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2020
M.A.R., Second Temple Judaism, Yale Divinity School, 2014
B.A., Program of Liberal Studies, Classical Civilizations, University of Notre
Dame, 2012
Biblical reception history
Women in the ancient world
Comparative ancient literature
Jewish, Muslim and Christian relations in the premodern world
Dr. Stinchcomb studies the formation, canonization and reception of biblical texts and traditions. She is particularly interested in the ways in which powerful women are depicted and recast in later traditions as cultural values and needs shifted over time. Her current book project, The Queen of Sheba between the Bible and the Kebra Nagast, closely examines how a minor figure in Solomon's life became a shared and contested authoritative figure in Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities. Her work has been published in Hebrew Studies, Religion and Queens in Antiquity and Present (Bloomsbury Press, 2024). At Towson, Dr. Stinchcomb teaches in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department, the History Department and the Baltimore Hebrew Institute.