Exodus and Deuteronomy

Contributors

xv ContriButors David Tuesday Adamo is deputy vice chancellor at Kogi State University in Nigeria, where he is professor of Old Testament. He is also a research fellow in the Department of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at UNISA, South Africa. His books include African American Heritage, Africa and the Africans in the Old Testament, Africa and Africans in the New Testament , and Reading and Interpreting the Bible in African Indigenous Churches. Solomon Olusola Ademiluka is a senior lecturer in the department of philosophy and religious studies at Kogi State University in Nigeria. His areas of research are Biblical Hebrew and Old Testament interpretation in African perspective. Among his recent publications are “An Ecological Interpretation of Leviticus 11–15 in an African (Nigerian) Context” (Old Testament Essays) and “Identifying the Enemies of the Psalmists in African Perspective” (Theologia Viatorum: Journal of Religion and Theology in Africa). Roland Boer is a research professor at the University of Newcastle in Australia . He writes on Marxism and religion, as well as biblical studies. His most recent publication is Criticism of Theology: On Marxism and Theology III. Athalya Brenner is professor emerita of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the University of Amsterdam and professor in biblical studies at Tel Aviv University . She edited the first and second series of A Feminist Companion to the Bible and is author of I Am: Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories, among other works. Bernadette J. Brooten is the Robert and Myra Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University. She is the founder and director of the Brandeis Feminist Sexual Ethics Project. She has published widely on ancient Jewish and early Christian women’s history, including Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues and Love between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism. xvi Contributors Fernando Candido da Silva holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies from the Methodist University of São Paulo. His work connects liberationist struggles with biblical hermeneutics. With Lieve Troch, he edited the “Body and Color: Reflections in Gender and Religion” issue of the Latin-American journal Mandrágora. Matthew J. M. Coomber is assistant professor of biblical studies at St. Ambrose University in Iowa. He is the author of Re-Reading the Prophets through Corporate Globalization: A Cultural-Evolutionary Approach to Economic Injustice in the Hebrew Bible and editor of The Bible and Justice: Ancient Texts, Modern Challenges. Coomber serves on the board of directors for the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice and as an Episcopal priest. Magdi S. Gendi is professor of Old Testament and Academic Dean at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo. He published “Does God Change His Mind: The Image of God in the Old Testament” (in Toward a Contemporary Arabic Theology). He is investigating Isaiah 19 in light of the current situation in Egypt. Naomi Graetz taught English at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. She is the author of Unlocking the Garden: A Feminist Jewish Look at the Bible, Midrash and God, The Rabbi’s Wife Plays at Murder, and Silence Is Deadly: Judaism Confronts Wifebeating, among other works. Sandra Jacobs received her doctorate from the University of Manchester in 2010. She is an honorary research associate in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College in London. Joseph Ryan Kelly is a doctoral student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. He is interested in biblical theology and ethics. He recently published “Sources of Contention and the Emerging Reality Concerning Qohelet’s Carpe Diem Advice” (in Antiguo Oriente). Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan is professor of theology and women’s studies at Shaw University Divinity School in North Carolina and an ordained elder in the Christian Methodist Episcopal church. She has written and edited over twenty books, including The Africana Bible: Reading Israel’s Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora (coeditor) and Wake-Up! Hip-Hop, Christianity , and the Black Church (coauthor). xvii Contributors Mikael Larsson is assistant professor in biblical studies in the theology faculty of Uppsala University. His research interests include gender, violence, sexuality, and film. He is the author of Wrestling with Textual Violence: The Jephthah Narrative in Antiquity and Modernity. Kari Latvus is University Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Hebrew at the University of Helsinki and cofounder of the SBL Consultation on Poverty in the Biblical World. He has written essays and books on wealth and...