Jon L. Berquist has served as visiting professor of Old Testament at San Francisco Theological Seminary since 2014. He holds a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible from Vanderbilt University. His scholarly expertise includes history and literature of the Persian period, embodiment and gender issues in the Hebrew Bible, and biblical interpretation using postcolonial methods, social-scientific approaches, and spatial theory. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Judaism in Persia’s Shadow and Controlling Corporeality, as well as more than 100 articles, chapters, essays, and...