Personal details

• Born in Australia
• Started professional life as an engineer (B.Eng/B.Comp.Sci.)

Scientific career

• Since 2026: Postdoctoral researcher in AnHuNav (Navigation in Antiquity and Cultural Data Exploration) - Research area: The Archaeology of Trade and Pilgrimage Routes in the Southern Levant and Cultural Data Exploration - Research Unit Digital Classical Studies (Prof. Dr Benedikt Hensel)
• 2022-2026: Research assistant to Prof. Dr Benedikt Hensel, University of Oldenburg
• 2021-2022: Research assistant with Prof Dr Konrad Schmid, University of Zurich
• 2018-2021: Research assistant with Prof Dr Christian Frevel, Ruhr University Bochum

Degrees

• Master of Divinity, Whitley College, University of Divinity in Melbourne
• 2021: Doctorate with Prof. Dr Konrad Schmid, University of Zurich:"The End of the Book of Numbers: On Pentateuchal Models and Compositional Issues"(summa cum laude)

Research focus

• Understanding the cultural and ideological-historical background of biblical texts
• Focus on the intersection of literary history of the Old Testament and biblical archaeology/religious history of Israel

Current research (habilitation)

"The Book of Jeremiah as History and Story: Theological Reimagination in the Shadow of Empires and Exiles."

The work takes up the long-observed but rarely solved problem of the book's multifaceted theology and attempts to explain it against the backdrop of changing social dynamics caused by geopolitical events. To achieve this, a solid historical reconstruction is required, drawing on historical sources, archaeological data and other indicators from the ancient Near East (e.g. ancient prophecies as political propaganda [Mari, Assyrian and other such texts]). Against this geopolitical backdrop, the project emphasises the changing perspectives on the Babylonian exile, the first Golah community and the diaspora throughout the book of Jeremiah.

Publications

Monographs

• (2022) Davis, Jordan. The End of the Book of Numbers: On Pentateuchal Models and Compositional Issues. ArchB 6. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck(dissertation)
• (in preparation) Davis, Jordan, The Book of Jeremiah as History and Story: Theological Reimagination in the Shadow of Empires and Exiles.(Habilitation)

Publications

• (2025*) Hutzli, Jürg and Jordan Davis (eds.). The Historical Location of P: Reconsidering the Priestly Texts in Light of Material Culture and Geographical Indications. ArchB. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
• (2025) Davis, Jordan and Benedikt Hensel (eds.). A Prophet to the Nations: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Jeremiah 46-51. VTOA 4. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht.
• (2024) Hensel, Benedikt (ed., in collaboration with Jordan Davis). Transjordan and the Southern Levant: New Approaches Regarding the Iron Age and the Persian Period from Hebrew Bible Studies and Archaeology. ArchB 8. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
• (in preparation; 2026) Brett, Mark, Rachelle Gilmour, Benedikt Hensel, Jordan Davis (eds.). Politics and Compromise in the Hebrew Bible. FAT II. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Essays

In print:

• Hutzli, Jürg and Jordan Davis. "The Historical Location of the Priestly Writings: An Introduction." In: J. Hutzli/J. Davis (eds.). The Historical Location of P: Reconsidering the Priestly Texts in Light of Material Culture and Geographical Indications. ArchB. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1-13. (11/2025*)
• Davis, Jordan. "A Priestly Source in Numbers?: Transjordan and the Priestly Ideology in Numbers 32." In: J. Hutzli/J. Davis (eds.), The Historical Location of P: Reconsidering the Priestly Texts in Light of Material Culture and Geographical Indications. ArchB. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 207-243. (11/2025*)
• Davis, Jordan, "Binding and Bridging in Numbers 1-10 and Numbers 26-36." In: C. Frevel/B. Kilchör/C.A. Evans (eds.), The Book of Numbers: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation. FIOTL 202, Leiden: Brill. (02/2026*)

2025

• (2025) Davis, Jordan. "The Oracles against the Nations: An Introduction." In: J. Davis/B. Hensel (eds.), A Prophet to the Nations: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Jeremiah 46-51. VTOA 4. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1-10.
• (2025) Davis, Jordan. "Jeremiah, Qedar and the Queen of the Enclosure." In: J. Davis/B. Hensel (eds.), A Prophet to the Nations: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Jeremiah 46-51. VTOA 4. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 193-228.
• (2025) Davis Jordan. "Sourced Authority: The Sihon Tradition and the Use of Citations to Provide External Justification." Biblical Notes. New ed. 205: 97-112.
• (2025) Davis, Jordan. "The Festival Legislation in Numbers 28-29: A Further Step in Centralisation?" Vetus Testamentum: 1-15.

2024

• (2024) Davis, Jordan. "The Festival Legislation in Exodus and the Ideological Unity of "Books"." Journal of Old Testament Studies 136.1: 59-72.
• (2024) Davis, Jordan. "Sihon and the Problem of Israel in Transjordan." In: B. Hensel (ed.), Transjordan and the Southern Levant: New Approaches Regarding the Iron Age and the Persian Period from Hebrew Bible Studies and Archaeology. ArchB 8. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, 129-162.
• (2024) Davis, Jordan. "Review of Storymaking, Textual Development, and Varying Cultic Centralisations: Gathering and Fitting Unhewn Stones, by Benjamin D. Giffone." Review of Biblical Literature 08: 1-4.

2021

• (2021) Davis, Jordan. "Mishma." Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception 19: 376-377.
• (2021) Davis, Jordan. "Mithkah." Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception 19: 460.