미국 Radcliffe College(A.B.)
미국 Harvard University(Ph.D.)
현, Amherst College 종교학 교수

저서
“My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man” : Hair and Identity in Ancient Israel(Oxford University Press, 2008)
A Prelude to Biblical Folklore: UNDERDOGS and TRICKSTERS(University of Illinois Press, 2000)
War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence(Oxford University Press, 1995) 외 다수