Preston Atwood was chosen to receive the Lipton Essay Award for his paper, “Erotobucolic Humor as Euphemism in Song of Songs: A Comparison with Theocritus’ Idyll 11.19-21.” The award of $750 is courtesy of the Center for Jewish Studies at UW-Madison.
In addition, he was selected to receive the Pantzer Scholarship awarded through the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies.
Preston is a Ph.D. student whose interests include textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Septuagint and Peshitta studies, translation theory, the Book of Isaiah, Palmyrene Aramaic Epigraphy, and the NW Semitic languages.