Laura Lieber's Ph. She examines these works from a variety of perspectives, including literary, performative, and comparative particularly with early Christian hymnography in Syriac and Greek , and also as a genre of early Jewish biblical interpretation.
In recent years, she has begun to integrate the study of material culture into her analysis of these literary works, as part of taking a more fully "contextual" approach to literary analysis. Her most recent work approaches late ancient hymnography through the lens of theater studies and performance.
Her research interests include: Byzantine liturgical poetry; history of biblical interpretation; history of Jewish liturgy; Jewish culture in late antiquity; material culture; medieval Judaism; rabbinic literature. Review: D.
Levy, AJL Reviews 8. Andruska, Journal of Theological Studies Thomas R. Andrew D. Claudia D. Steven Fine Leiden: Brill, , Sarit Kattan Gribetz, David M. Debra Reed Blank Leiden: Brill, , Boda, Daniel K.
Falk, and Rodney Werline, eds. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, ed. Schmidt, and W. Smelik, eds. Leiden: Brill, , David Biale. Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine, Sabine R. Huebner Oxford: Blackwell, , doi: Deborah Green and Laura Lieber, eds. Claudia Bergmann, Festmahl ohne Ende. In: Interpretation Alberto J. In: Religious Studies Review 44 : In: Speculum Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries, ed.
