Katharine Doob Sakenfeld (born 1940) is an American

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scholar. She is Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis Emerita at

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, having previously been William Albright Eisenberger Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis. Sakenfeld studied at the University of Rhode Island and Harvard Divinity School before obtaining her Ph.D. at Harvard University. She was ordained as a Presbyterian teaching elder in 1970, and has served as the moderator of the

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in the PCUSA. She served on the translation committee of the New Revised Standard Version, and was president of the

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in 2007. Sakenfeld was written commentaries on Numbers and Ruth, and was general editor of the ''

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''. In 2006 a '' Festschrift'' was published in her honor: ''Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld'', which included contributions from

F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp F. W. "Chip" Dobbs-Allsopp is a biblical scholar, epigrapher, and literary theorist. Currently professor of Old Testament, or Hebrew Bible, at Princeton Theological Seminary, he has taught and written extensively on Semitic languages, the origins ...

Choon-Leong Seow Choon-Leong Seow (; born August 4, 1952), known as C. L. Seow, is a distinguished biblical scholar, semitist, epigrapher, and historian of Near Eastern religion, currently as Vanderbilt, Buffington, Cupples Chair in Divinity and Distinguished Profe ...

Phyllis Bird Phyllis Ann Bird (born 1934) is an American feminist scholar in biblical hermeneutics. She is Professor Emerita of Old Testament Interpretation at Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary and McCarthy Professor of Biblical Studies at the Pontific ...

and

Patrick D. Miller Patrick D. Miller, Jr. (24 October 1935 – 1 May 2020) was an American Old Testament scholar who served as Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1984 to 2005. He was an ordained minister in t ...

Selected works

* ''The meaning of hesed in the Hebrew Bible : a new inquiry'', 1977 * ''Faithfulness in action : loyalty in Biblical perspective '', 1985 * ''Journeying with God : a commentary on the book of Numbers'', 1995 * ''Just wives? : stories of power and survival in the Old Testament and today'', 2003

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