Case Western Reserve University

Faculty Member, Religious Studies

Archbishop Hallinan Professor of Catholic Studies

About

My doctoral work was focused upon literary approaches to biblical studies. While I continue to work in that area, I have extended my scholarship into investigating the ways in which the Bible is used culturally and politically by various groups.  I have written extensively upon Bible and film, feminist analyses of biblical figures, and critical interpretations of the Hebrew narratives and their midrashic extensions.

My most recent scholarship involves the politics of tourism in the Holy Land, e.g., how Christian Zionists and religious Zionists have used biblical narratives as proof of land ownership in Israel and Palestine.