Dr. Natalie Bloch

Natalie Bloch is a research fellow in Hebrew Bible Exegesis at Lund University. Her research interests include Second Temple Judaism; Rabbinic Literature; Jewish reception history of mystical traditions; Psychedelics and religion; and contemporary Hebrew Literature. Her extensive public-facing scholarship is centered around educational content-creation about Jewish culture for Swedish public service, both television and radio. Since 2013, Dr. Bloch is also working as a translator of Hebrew fiction into Swedish, with translated works by Amos Oz and David Grossman, among others.

See the abstract for Natalie's presentation, “The Psychedelic Temple – Re-imagining ancient Jewish temple space through Psychedelic Aesthetics.”