Kaitlynn Merckling

Kaitlynn is a PhD student in New Testament at Princeton Seminary. She was raised in Newark, DE and has also lived in Western NY, Chesapeake, VA, and most recently Edinburgh, UK. Kaitlynn holds AAS, BS, MA, and MTh degrees. She has traveled widely and values cross-cultural collaboration and a global interpretive community.

Kaitlynn’s research interests lie in the field of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins. She is especially interested in views of the afterlife expressed in the literature of the 3rd c. BCE-2nd c. CE.