Dr. Danilo Verde is a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher of the FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) affiliated to the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven. He holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies from the same University. His research focuses on metaphor, gender, trauma, and pain in the Hebrew Bible. Verde is the author of Conquered Conquerors: Love and War in the Song of Songs (SBL 2020), and co-editor (with Antje Labahn) of Networks of Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible (Peeters, 2020), and a thematic issue of the journal Open Theology (with Dominik Markl) titled Cultural Trauma and the Hebrew Bible (2022).