Susan Niditch is Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College. Her research and teaching interests include the study of ancient Israelite literature from the interdisciplinary perspectives of the fields of folklore and oral studies; biblical ethics with special attention to war, gender, and the body; the reception history of the Bible; and the material religion of biblical worlds. Her most recent book is The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods.
""I would, however, recommend this book to university libraries catering for courses in ancient history, historical theology, archaeology or Middle Eastern studies, as a balanced and scholarly guide to the current state of knowledge."" —Martin Guha, Reference Reviews, Volume 30, Number 7, 2016