Dr. Mal­ka Z. Simkovich is Crown-Ryan Chair of Jew­ish Stud­ies and Direc­tor of the Catholic-Jew­ish Stud­ies pro­gram at Catholic The­o­log­i­cal Union in Chica­go. She is the author of The Mak­ing of Jew­ish Uni­ver­sal­ism: From Exile to Alexan­dria and Dis­cov­er­ing Sec­ond Tem­ple Lit­er­a­ture: The Scrip­tures and Sto­ries That Shaped Ear­ly Judaism.