Maria Fernandes holds a Licenciatura (B.A.) in History by the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and an MA in History and Culture of Religions by the same School (2011), with thesis Prayer in Bavli Berakot (in Portuguese), supervised by José Augusto Ramos. She has participated in several conferences and published chapters in books and some articles in journals, as well as the translation of Latin medieval documents and of Philo of Alexandria’s treatise De Iosepho into Portuguese. She is a researcher at the Centre of Classical Studies of the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon University and an associate researcher at C.E.H.R. (Centre for the Study of Religious History) of the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP), in Lisbon. Her main areas of interest are Ancient History (ANE mythologies and literature), as well as Jewish and Biblical studies.