Our Team
Rob was raised in the Lutheran church and has always had a love for God. He developed a deep curiosity about the foundation, translation, and understanding of God’s word in the 1990’s, procuring his first Hebrew/English Bible as payment for playing guitar in a local bookstore.
From there his curiosity grew as he sought to better understand the Good News of Yeshua and how it related to the Old Testament . In 2000 he entered the University of Washington to deepen his knowledge and skill set in biblical languages. There he completed a BA in Near Eastern Languages & Civilization with a Minor in Music (2003), and an MA in Comparative Religion (2005) under the direction of Martin S. Jaffee, one of Rob’s most influential teachers.
In 2011 Rob was given the opportunity to work under Tim Hegg at TorahResource Institute. During his time at TorahResource, Rob taught numerous students, presented original research at dozens of conferences, and published several academic articles. Past courses and areas of study include: Biblical languages and texts, 2nd Temple Period Sectarianism, Rabbinic Literature, Early Judaism, and Theological Research & Writing.
In 2025 Rob’s time at TorahResource had come to an end and TelosTorah was born. Here he hopes to continue to teach and grow in God’s Word through deep study, personal growth and sharing his knowledge and love of God’s word with others.
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Executive Director - Lead Instructor
Rob Vanhoff
Published Books
Your Torah, My Delight ~Short Comments on the Five Books of Moses (Rob on the ROCK, 2025)
You are Elohim ~Two Views of Psalm 82 (Rob on the ROCK, 2025)
A Disciple Named Timothy ~ Essays in Honor of Tim Hegg on His 75th Birthday, co-edited with C. M. Hegg (TorahResource, 2025)
“A Tzaddik in Targum: Alternative Aramaic Hyper-animations of Ben Ish Chai,” (SBL Midrash Section, Nov 2024, San Diego, CA)
“The Powerlifting Patriarch: How the Rabbis explain ‘the God of Jacob’ (Ps. 20:1),” (SBL Virtual Conference, Spring 2023)
“Fluidity, Memory, and the Masorah: A Study of Repeat Performances in Ephrayim ben Buya‘ah’s Torah Notations,” (SBL Masorah Section, Nov 2022, Denver, CO)
“And Esther Donned Malchut: Petitionary Mourning, Conceptual Blending, and Reading God in the Megillah,” Pacific Northwest Society of Biblical Literature, Hebrew Bible Section (May, 2022).
“The Reader, the Rex, and His Flexible Text: Malleable Symbols in the Mouth of Matthew’s Messiah,” Mid-Atlantic Region Society of Biblical Literature (March, 2022)
“Importing Angels and Removing Rocks: Why Greek Jews Remade Deuteronomy 32 to Fit Life in Egypt,” SBL Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible Section (Nov, 2021)
Academic Presentations
“A Tzaddik in Targum: Alternative Aramaic Hyper-animations of Ben Ish Chai,” [Forthcoming, Gorgias Press, 2026]
“A Once and Future Holiness: Displacement and Hope in Tiberian Jewish Scribal Memory,” [Forthcoming, Brepols, 2026]
“Hadassah Wears Esther: Attire, Allusion, and Identity in the Megillah,” [Forthcoming, T&T Clark, 2025]
“God’s Yods: Tradition and Innovation in Early Masoretic Treatment of the Name of God,” [Forthcoming, De Gruyter, 2025]
“A Numbers Game: Masorah, Mishnah, and Three Proto-Midrash Tadshe Traditions in Samuel ben Jacob’s Imaginative Equations,” in W. David Nelson and Rivka Ulmer, eds., Ten Measures of Beauty (Gorgias Press, 2025) pp. 97-110.
“This Torah, A Sign of Good Things to Come: Tradition, Religion, and Politics in the Colophons of Two Tenth-Century Sibling Scribes,” in George Kiraz and Sabine Schmidtke, eds., Literary Snippets: Colophons Across Space and Time (Gorgias Press, 2023) pp. 107–118.
Published Articles
Jenny Vanhoff - Treasurer
Harold Rosin
Clif White
Bobby Keicher