Savina J. Teubal, an affiliated scholar at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, has lectured and written extensively on women in the Hebrew Bible. She is the author of Sarah the Priestess: The First Matriarch of Genesis and Hagar the Egyptian: Lost Traditions of the Matriarchs. She is the founding president of Sarah's Tent: Sheltering Creative Jewish Spirituality, which is based in southern California.