Independent scholar based in Princeton New Jersey who has taught at Oberlin College and Rutgers University. She is also the author of The Jewish Manumission Inscriptions of the Bosporan Kingdom, Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, edited by Peter Sch?fer and Martin Hengel. T?bingen: Verlag Mohr Siebeck (1999). She and Shelly Matthews initiated the SBL Consultation on Violence and Representations of Violence among Jews and Christians.