Minds, Bodies, and Power: Rethinking Social Scientific Approaches to the Bible

Rosanne Liebermann is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Aarhus University in Denmark. She is the author of Exile, Incorporated (2024) and coeditor of Divinity in Ancient Israel and Beyond (forthcoming). Her research primarily focuses on the role of the body in identity formation, pain, and illness.

Marianne Bjelland Kartzow is Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is the author of Gossip and Gender (2009), Destabilizing the Margins (Pickwick Publications, 2012), and The Slave Metaphor and Gendered Enslavement in Early Christian Discourse (2018). Kartzow has recently edited and coedited many volumes, including The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions (2022).