Katharine Doob Sakenfeld  126 Administration Building 497-7818 katharine.sakenfeld@ptsem.edu

William Albright Eisenberger Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis, and Director of Ph.D. Studies. M.A., University of Rhode Island; B.D., Harvard University Divinity School; Ph.D., Harvard University; S.T.D. (Hon.), Hastings College. Her research focuses primarily on biblical narratives concerning the premonarchical period and on feminist biblical hermeneutics.  She served as a member of the NRSV translation committee and as a co-editor of the Oxford Study Bible (1992) and Reading the Bible as Women: Perspectives from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Semeia 78 (1997). She has published commentaries on Numbers (1995) and Ruth (Interpretation, 1999), as well as many articles on feminist interpretation, with a special focus on voices from diverse cultural contexts. She is also interested in methodology for the task of historical reconstruction, particularly the balancing of social science, textual, and archaeological resources for understanding the emergence of Israel. A Presbyterian clergywoman, Sakenfeld is the past moderator of her presbytery and co-chairs the ecumenical hermeneutics working group of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches. (Presbyterian) 

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