Hanna Tervanotko

Hanna Tervanotko (born in Vantaa, Finland) is a Finnish-born Canadian historian of religion. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on the Second Temple era and her research interests include women in antiquity, Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Jewish interpretation of scripture.

Biography Tervanotko earned her M.A. (2003) and Th.D. (2013) in Biblical Studies at the University of Helsinki. She also earned a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna in 2013 under a cotutelle de thèse agreement between the two universities.