Alison Salvesen is Professor of Early Judaism and Christianity at Oxford, and Supernumerary Fellow in Oriental Studies at Mansfield College. Her main research is in the area of ancient interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. This includes the Greek Septuagint, the later Jewish Greek versions, the Aramaic Targums, the Peshitta Syriac version, and St Jerome's Vulgate translation. She also works on the reception history of these versions during the formative periods of rabbinic Judaism and of Christianity.
