Dr. Sarah Shectman holds a Ph.D. in Bible and Ancient Near East from Brandeis University. She has taught at Binghamton University, Gustavus Adolphus College, and has also been on the faculty of the Tauber Jewish Studies Program at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. Her recently published book, Women in the Pentateuch: A Feminist and Source-Critical Analysis (Sheffield, 2009), is a study of the portrayal of women in the narrative sources of the first four books of the Hebrew Bible. Hailing originally from Southern California, Sarah lived on the East Coast for twelve years before moving to the Bay Area in 2004.