List of contributors

Amadi Ahiamadu is lecturer in the Department of Religious and Cultural Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and a research fellow of the Department of Old and New Testament, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is also a member of the Nigerian Association of Biblical Studies. In partnership with Wycliffe Bible Translators he produced the Ogba New Testament translation. His areas of specialization and research interest include Old and New Testament studies, biblical and literary hermeneutics, ecotheology, and Hebrew and Old Testament translation. Athalya Brenner is emerita professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, currently teaching biblical studies at Tel Aviv University. She is the editor of A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible, first and second series (nineteen volumes). Her research interests are biblical poetics and philology, feminist criticisms, and cultural studies as applied to biblical studies. Kristel A. Clayville is a PhD candidate in Religious Ethics at the Divinity School, University of Chicago. She is currently writing her dissertation, titled, “Responsible Hermeneutics: The Interpretation of Religious Texts in the Environmental Ethics of Hans Jonas and Holmes Rolston III.” Her main research interests are in the areas of ethics of biblical interpretation, land ethics, and Bible and ethics, with ecological concerns anchoring these interests practically. Yonina Dor was chair of the Bible Department at Oranim Educational College, Qiryat Tiv’on, Israel. Her PhD (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) is about the expulsion of foreign women in Ezra-Nehemiah. Her research interests are Ezra-Nehemiah, the marriage of Israelites with foreign wives, biblical ethics, and biblical myths. Another interest area is the didactics of Bible teaching in contemporary Israeli state education and the teaching of the Bible within a humanistic framework. Carole R. Fontaine is the Taylor Professor of Biblical Theology and History at Andover Newton Theological School. She studied at Yale Divinity School and Duke University, and is the author of Smooth Words: Women, Proverbs and Performance in Biblical Wisdom, and With Eyes of Flesh: The Bible, Gender and Human Rights. She is vice president of the International Federation of Women against Fundamentalism and Equality (WAFE), and has volunteered for the NGO Women’s United Nations Report Network (WUNRN) for over a