Professor Sidnie White Crawford

Sidnie White Crawford is Willa Cather Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism emerita at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Visiting Professor (Dept. of Bible) at Princeton Theological Seminary.

She is an internationally recognized scholar in the areas of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. Her latest book is Qumran Questions: Collected Essays (Wipf & Stock, 2025). Her book Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2019) was the winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society’s “Best Popular Book on Archaeology” (2021) and the Frank Moore Cross Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research (2019). She serves as a Co-Editor for The Oxford Handbook of Textual Criticism of the Bible (forthcoming from OUP), is the Chair of the Old Testament Editorial Board for the Hermeneia commentary series, and is Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Society of Biblical Literature series The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition. She is Board Chair emerita and past President of the Board of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. Crawford served as a general editor (Hebrew Bible, Deuterocanon) for the 30-year review of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible undertaken by the National Council of Churches (released in 2022). Her research project at Clare Hall is to create a critical text of the Qumran Damascus Document, which will be part of the Hermeneia commentary on the Damascus Document (with Cecilia Wassén of Uppsala University).
Sidnie is a priest in the Episcopal Church USA. She lives in Stroudsburg, PA with her husband Dan and their cat Mollie. She enjoys classical music, especially early music, opera, historical and mystery novels, and travel.

Sidnie is accompanied by her husband, Dan Crawford, Emeritus Professor in Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His fields of interest are American philosophy (William James) and philosophy of religion. Dan is a devotee of Early Music.