American Old Testament scholar
Katharine Doob Sakenfeld (born 1940) is an American Old Testament scholar. She is Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis Emerita at Princeton Theological Seminary , having previously been William Albright Eisenberger Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis.[1]
Sakenfeld studied at the University of Rhode Island and Harvard Divinity School before obtaining her Ph.D. at Harvard University. She was ordained as a Presbyterian teaching elder in 1970, and has served as the moderator of the Presbytery of New Brunswick in the PCUSA . She served on the translation committee of the New Revised Standard Version , and was president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2007.[1]
Sakenfeld has written commentaries on Numbers and Ruth , and was general editor of the New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible . In 2006 a Festschrift was published in her honor: Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld , which included contributions from F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp , Choon-Leong Seow , Phyllis Bird and Patrick D. Miller .
The meaning of hesed in the Hebrew Bible : a new inquiry , 1977
Faithfulness in action : loyalty in Biblical perspective , 1985
Journeying with God : a commentary on the book of Numbers , 1995
Just wives? : stories of power and survival in the Old Testament and today , 2003
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