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Susan Niditch is the Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University's department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and specializes in ancient Israel and early Judaism.
Her research interests include:
- Early and oral literatures
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Material religion
- Comparative religious ethics
Professor Niditch has authored numerous influential books including Underdogs and Tricksters: A Prelude to Biblical Folklore (1987), War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence (1993), Oral World and Written Word: Ancient Israelite Literature (1996), "My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man": Hair and Identity in Ancient Israel (2008), and The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods (2015). Her most recent works include a commentary on Jonah in the Hermeneia Series (2023) and Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond (2024).
Her recent scholarship demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach examining biblical narratives through folklore studies, gender analysis, and ethical frameworks. Her work on Jonah, Ruth, and Genesis narratives reveals how ancient texts address questions of divine-human relationships, social justice, migration, and cultural identity.
Professor Niditch's academic contributions have established her as a leading scholar who bridges traditional biblical criticism with contemporary theoretical approaches from multiple disciplines.
