Esther J. Hamori teach­es the pop­u­lar class ​“Mon­ster Heav­en” at Union The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary in New York, where she is a pro­fes­sor of Hebrew Bible. Spe­cial­iz­ing in bib­li­cal con­cepts of divine-human con­tact, and a life­long devo­tee of all that is eerie, she is the author of Wom­en’s Div­ina­tion in Bib­li­cal Lit­er­a­ture: Prophe­cy, Necro­man­cy, and Oth­er Arts of Knowl­edge, among oth­er works. She has a PhD in Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East from New York Uni­ver­si­ty and an MDiv from Yale Divin­i­ty School.