Cynthia Edenburg is an academic staff member in the Department of History, Philosophy and Jewish Studies at the Open University of Israel.

She is an expert in the field of comparative literature history of the Old Testament and the literature production of Second Temple Judaism.

Cynthia Edenburg will be at CAS from October until December 2012 upon invitation from Prof. Dr. Christoph Levin, where she will work on various techniques of Bible editing under the project title "Rewriting, Overwriting and Deuteronomistic History".