Noelle Johnson, Ph.D. Cand.

Noelle Grace Johnson joins the Augustine Institute from the University of Notre Dame, where she received the Notebaert Premier Fellowship for her doctoral studies. Her specialty is the study of the Hebrew Bible/OldTestament and ancient Judaism, with expertise also in the New Testament and early Christianity. Her dissertation and publications focus on calendars and sacrifices in ancient Israel, as well as Jewish Biblical interpretation in the Second Temple and early Rabbinic periods.

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Her article, “The Tsadiq Gives and Lends: Versions and Scribal Logic in Proverbs 13:7–11” will appear in spring of 2027 in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly. She also has an article related to her dissertation: “Is the Ordination of the Priests Supposed to Occur Annually? Revisiting the Days of Millu’im in the Pentateuch and the Temple Scroll” in a forthcoming collected volume The Pattern of the Tabernacle (Ex 25:9): Functions and Forms of Biblical Sanctuaries according to Textual and Material Evidence, edited by Nathan MacDonald and Petr Sláma for FAT Erste Reihe (Mohr Siebeck). As an undergraduate, she published four articles on science and religion for the McGrath Institute for Church Life Church Life Journal, which you can find linked here.
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A member of the Catholic Biblical Association since 2021, she received their Emerging Scholars Fellowship in 2023 and Dissertation Fellowship in 2025. This year, she co-founded a new continuing seminar on the Pentateuch for the Catholic Biblical Association. She has presented annually at the Society of Biblical Literature since 2024, including papers in the Hebrew Bible Text Criticism and Qumran units. In 2025, she was a recipient of the Notre Dame Rome Graduate Research Fellowship. Research, language study, and conference presentations have brought her to Jerusalem, Rome, Göttingen, Prague, and more.
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