Rebekah completed her DPhil entitled ‘Re-presenting Dislocation: The Poetics of Exile and Diaspora in Ancient Jewish Texts’. Since completing her doctorate, Rebekah has been appointed as a Junior Research Fellow at the Oriel Centre for the Study of the Bible. In addition to helping with administration at the Centre and providing postgraduate teaching, this academic year Rebekah has contributed an essay entitled ‘Isaiah’s Poetics of Exile and Wilderness Read by 1QS and Yehuda Amichai’s “Jews in the Land of Israel”’ in a volume called The Function of the Reader in the Formation and the Reception of the Book of Isaiah (Brill Schöningh, 2024.) This year, Rebekah has presented research on topics ranging from the book of Lamentations, Second Isaiah, and the Song of Songs. She has presented at the European Association for Biblical studies Syracusa, 2023); the Society for Biblical Literature (2023, San Antonio); a conference on Reading: Performance and Materiality in Hebrew and Aramaic Traditions (Oxford University); and a conference on New Interpretations of the Song of Songs at the University of Gloucestershire. Rebekah also gave a lecture for the Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco Roman Periodentitled ‘“New Exodus” Typology and Supersessionism in 20th Century Isaiah Scholarship’.