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Judy is a senior faculty member at Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. She weaves together traditional exegesis, modern scholarship and her own original interpretations that are informed by close readings of the text. Judy is a popular lecturer on Bible in the US, Europe and Israel and she is the author of a new book: Subversive Segue’s in the Bible (JPS).

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