Cale Waress is a second-year of the MPhil student in Hebrew Bible under the supervision of Professor Hindy Najman. He graduated from Colorado School of Mines with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Before coming to Oxford, he studied ancient philology in Jerusalem. There, Cale enjoyed all the challenges of engaging the textual witnesses, from reading inscriptions in situ to viewing rich collections of manuscripts.
In the past, Cale’s work focused on exilic conceptions of divine power and agency in concepts of the land, authority and (re)written texts in Jeremiah 36 and 2 Kings 22, Hebrew and Aramaic code-switching, and the biblical developments of cloud and smoke as liminal images. His current work focuses on linguistic analysis of sapiential terms in Hebrew texts.