Professor Steven Weitzman recently joined the faculty of Stanford's Religious Studies Department and Jewish Studies Program as the Daniel Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and Religion. A scholar of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism, Weitzman's publications include Surviving Sacrilege: Cultural Persistence in Jewish Antiquity (Harvard University Press, 2005); Religion and the Self in Antiquity (edited with David Brakke and Michael Satlow, Indiana University Press, 2005); and The Jews: a History (with John Efron, Matthias Lehmann and Joshua Holo, Prentice Hall, 2008). His current projects include a biography of King Solomon under contract with Yale University Press. Before coming to Stanford in 2009, Weitzman served as director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University in Bloomington.