Agata Grzybowska-Wiatrak
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University of Warsaw
Agata Grzybowska-Wiatrak is a classicist specializing in Hellenistic Jewish literature. She earned her Ph.D. in Literary Studies from the University of Warsaw in 2023, with a dissertation titled Jewish Literature in the Egyptian Diaspora of the Hellenistic Period: Greek Genres and Literary Traditions. Her research examined how Jewish authors from Ptolemaic Egypt reinterpreted Biblical history and their contemporary world through Greek literary forms, motifs, and narrative patterns.
During her doctoral studies, she published a Polish translation of the fragments of Theodotus’ epic poem on Jacob, accompanied by an introduction and commentary. She also contributed chapters to two edited volumes: Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (De Gruyter, 2023) and Strangers in the Land: Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Medieval Times (Brill, 2024).
As a Starr Fellow, she is currently working on a book that explores the representations of royal (Ptolemaic), biblical, and priestly authority within Greek-Jewish texts from the Egyptian diaspora. Additionally, she is developing two articles on related topics.