Yvonne Sherwood is Professor of Bible, Religion and Culture at the University of Glasgow. She is author of A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2000); Derrida's Bible: Reading a Page of Scripture with a Little Help from Derrida (2004); The Prostitute and the Prophet (2004) and, with Stephen Moore, of The Invention of the Biblical Scholar: A Critical Manifesto (2011). She is co-editor of Sanctified Aggression: Legacies of Biblical and Post-Biblical Vocabularies of Violence (with Jonneke Bekkenkamp, 2003) and, with Kevin Hart,