Judith R. Baskin, Philip H. Knight Pro­fes­sor of Human­i­ties Emeri­ta, Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon, is the author of Midrashic Woman: For­ma­tions of the Fem­i­nine in Rab­binic Lit­er­a­ture. Her edit­ed books include Jew­ish Women in His­tor­i­cal Per­spec­tive; Women of the Word: Jew­ish Women and Jew­ish Writ­ing; and The Cam­bridge Guide to Jew­ish His­to­ry, Reli­gion, and Cul­ture, coedit­ed with Ken­neth See­skin and win­ner of a 2011 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award.