As the Mississippi sun drenched my parents’ stately living room, I strained with anticipation from my bedroom on the second floor to overhear the conversation. A man—a Southern Baptist seminary…
Jill Hicks-Keeton
Jill Hicks-Keeton is a biblical scholar and associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel’s Living God in Jewish Antiquity (Oxford Univ. Press, 2018) and a forthcoming book, with Cavan Concannon, from Cambridge Univ. Press analyzing the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Find her on Twitter @JillHicksKeeton. She suggests you put the internet down and go read Renita J. Weems’ Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets immediately.
