Danna Nolan Fewell is an

Old Testament The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...

scholar. She is John Fletcher Hurst Professor of Hebrew Bible at

Drew University Drew University is a private university in Madison, New Jersey, United States. It has a wooded campus. As of fall 2020, more than 2,200 students were pursuing degrees at the university's three schools. While affiliated with the Methodism, Me ...

Theological School. Fewell studied at Candler School of Theology,

Emory University Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...

and previously taught at the

Perkins School of Theology Perkins School of Theology is one of Southern Methodist University's three original schools and is located in Dallas, Texas. The theology school was renamed in 1945 to honor benefactors Joe J. and Lois Craddock Perkins of Wichita Falls, Texas. De ...

Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a Private university, private research university in Dallas, Texas, United States, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico. SMU was founded on April 17, 1911, by the Methodist Episcopal Church, ...

. Fewell has enjoyed a successful association with David M. Gunn, with whom she has co-authored several articles and three books: ''Compromising Redemption: Relating Characters in the Book of Ruth''; ''Gender, Power, and Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story''; and ''Narrative in the Hebrew Bible''. Fewell and Gunn represent a

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literary approach to biblical literature. Her other works include ''Circle of Sovereignty: Plotting Politics in the Book of Daniel'' (1991), ''The Children of Israel: Reading the Bible for the Sake of Our Children'' (2003), and ''Icon of Loss: The Haunting Child of Samuel Bak'' (2009). She is the editor of ''Reading Between Texts: Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible'' (1992) and the co-editor of ''Bible and Ethics of Reading'' (1997) and ''Representing the Irreparable: The Shoah, the Bible, and the Art of Samuel Bak'' (2008). Her most recent major publication is ''The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative'' (2016) a volume of fifty-one essays by some of the world’s most noted and most recent authorities on various aspects of biblical narrative. Fewell has been one of the first biblical scholars to focus on how children are represented in the Bible.

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