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A postdoctoral scholar (2018-2021) in the Jewish Studies program. Forger is a scholar of Second Temple Judaism and the New Testament, with an additional focus in early Jewish-Christian relations. Though later polemics suggest that Jews and Christians differentiated themselves based on their views of God's body, her work complicates this picture by analyzing how first-century Jews envisioned God in corporeal form or humans as divine. She is also interested in questions of where, how, and when the ways parted between Jews and Christians, and how scriptural hermeneutics impacted, complicated, impinged upon, and fortified those separations.
"God Made Manifest: Josephus, Idolatry, and Divine Images in Flavian Rome." Journal for the Study of Judaism 51 (2020): 231–260.
"Hearing God's Word(s): Aurality, Epistemology, and Embodiment in the Gospel of John." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 42.3 (2020): 274–302.
"Divine Embodiment in Philo of Alexandria." Journal for the Study of Judaism 49.2 (2018): 223–262.
"Interpreting the Syrophoenician Woman to Construct Jewish-Christian Fault Lines: John Chrysostom and the Pseudo-Clementine Homilist in Chrono-Locational Perspective," Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting 3 (2016): 132–166.