Galit Hasan-Rokem is Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore and Head of the Institute of Jewish Studies at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She is the author of "Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature "(2000) and coeditor of "The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present "(1999) and "Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes "(1996).