Dr. Kevin Mattison specializes in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism. His research focuses on how ancient Jewish communities reimagined their foundational literature to meet changing needs in their changing world.

He is currently writing his second book, Reimagining Sinai and Transforming the Torah in Ancient Judaism. This book studies the competing claims different ancient communities made on the Mount Sinai encounter to challenge anachronistic scholarly categories of “biblical” versus “non-biblical” and composition versus transmission versus reception, to better understand ancient Jewish texts, their authors, and their communities on their own terms.

In conjunction with this book project, he is developing the digital platform and public outreach campaign Mapping Ancient Jewish Interpretation (MAJI). MAJI is designed to better inform students and the public about the intellectual and ethical vitality of ancient Judaism and thereby correct misconceptions that have for far too long allowed antisemitism to persist. 

He is the author of Rewriting and Revision as Amendment in the Laws of Deuteronomy (Mohr Siebeck, 2018).