Havilah Dharamraj
Havilah Dharamraj (PhD, University of Durham, UK) is faculty in Old Testament at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies in Bangalore, India. Among her many published works is Altogether Lovely: A Thematic and Intertextual Reading of the Song of Songs (Fortress, 2018). Her areas of academic interest are Old Testament narrative, reception-centred intertextuality that engages texts across the biblical canon, and comparative literature, which converses biblical texts with the sacred texts of other faiths. She encourages the retrieval of traditional methods of storytelling for use in preaching.
She is the editor of Priscilla Papers and is on the Old Testament team of CBE’s gender-accurate translation initiative.
CBE Endorsement: In a world in which gender relationships are marred by human sinfulness, CBE makes a significant and needed contribution to restoration of these relationships through a biblical corrective.
Havilah Dharamraj serves on CBE’s Board of Reference.
Resources By This Author
Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | August 4, 2026
Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | May 1, 2026
Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | May 1, 2025
Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | February 3, 2025
Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | November 1, 2024
Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | August 1, 2024
Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | April 29, 2024
Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | January 31, 2024
Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | November 2, 2023
Audio | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | October 9, 2023
Translating the Old Testament Part Two with Dr. Havilah Dharamraj
Audio | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | September 1, 2023
Women and Words: Translating the Old Testament Part One with Dr. Havilah Dharamraj
Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | August 7, 2023
Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | May 5, 2023
Video | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | August 1, 2019
Revisiting Eden: Genesis 2 as a Description of the Creation Story
| Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | June 1, 2018
Altogether Lovely: A Thematic and Intertextual Reading of the Song of Songs
Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | January 31, 2018
Green-Eyed Lovers: A Study of Jealousy in Song of Songs 8:5-7
Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 5, 2013
Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 1, 2007