Judith R. Baskin is Knight Professor of Humanities and Associate Dean for Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Her books include Pharaoh's Counsellors: Job, Jethro, and Balaam in Rabbinic and Patristic Tradition (1982) and Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature (2002). She is the editor of Jewish Women in Historical Perspective (1991; 2nd edition, 1998), Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (1994) and The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture (with Kenneth Seeskin, 2010).