FORA.tv Speaker - Sarah Shectman

Sarah Shectman holds a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. She has taught at Binghamton University (SUNY) and San Francisco Theological Seminary, and is currently a lecturer at University of California, Los Angeles.

Her book, Women in the Pentateuch: A Feminist and Source-Critical Analysis, is about varied depictions of women in the first five books of the Bible. Her current research focuses on the social status and class of women in the legal collections of the Pentateuch.