Tianruo Jiang is a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies at Yale University, specializing in Jewish writings from the late Second Temple to the late antique period. His dissertation examines the intersection of law writing and ethnic identification in early rabbinic literature. His other research interests include ancient Jewish biblical interpretation, the interaction between Jewish and Greco-Roman legal discourses, and the reception of classical Jewish texts in modern East Asia. Tianruo is a 2019 graduate of Peking University and a 2021 graduate of Yale Divinity School.
At Yale, Tianruo coordinates the Yale Jewish Studies Seminar and co-organized the 2024 Ancient Judaism Regional Seminar.