Susan Niditch

Susan Niditch is Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College. Her research deals with the cultures of ancient and early Judaism. Her particular interests include the study of ancient Israelite literature from the perspectives of folklore and oral studies; biblical ethics with special attention to war, gender, and the body; the reception history of the Bible; and the rich symbolic media of biblical ritual texts. Her publications include The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods and The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the American Folklore Society.