Rachel Adelman

Rachel Adelman is associate professor of Hebrew Bible at Boston’s Hebrew College. She holds a Ph.D. in Hebrew Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is the author of The Return of the Repressed: Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha (Brill 2009) and The Female Ruse: Women's Deception and Divine Sanction in the Hebrew Bible (Sheffield Phoenix, 2015).


Articles by Rachel Adelman

Who Was Bathsheba (Batsheva)?

King David's wife and King Solomon's mother came on the scene because of David's wandering gaze.

Who Was Dinah?

Dinah's debut is as quick as her disappearance in the Torah.