Prof. Susanne Scholz is Professor of Old Testament at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. She holds a Ph.D. and S.T.M. from Union Theological Seminary in New York City and the equivalent M.Div. from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She also studied at the University of Mainz, Germany, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. Scholz is the editor of many books, and is the author of The Bible as Political Artifact: On the Feminist Study of the Hebrew Bible (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2017), Introducing the Women’s Hebrew Bible: Feminism, Gender Justice, and the Study of the Old Testament (2^nd rev. & exp. edn; T&T Clark Bloomsbury, 2017), Sacred Witness: Rape in the Hebrew Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010).