Assistant Professor of Bible

Elsie Stern, Ph.D., received her bachelor of arts from Yale University and her master of arts and doctorate from The University of Chicago. Before coming to RRC, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Theology at Fordham University, where she taught Bible and Jewish Studies, and served as the assistant director for public programs at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Stern is the author of From Rebuke to Consolation: Bible, Exegesis and Ritual in the Literature of the Tisha b'Av Season (Brown Judaic Series, 2004) and is a contributor to the Jewish Study Bible and the Women's Torah Commentary (Women of Reform Judaism, forthcoming). In addition to her academic teaching and research, she has taught widely in both formal and informal educational settings in the United States and abroad. She is working on a book on the uses of the Book of Esther in its biblical and Jewish contexts.