Who is Judy Fentress-Williams?

Judy Fentress-Williams is the guest speaker for episode 9 of the Covenant Bible Study, "Ruth, Esther, Song of Songs: Faithful Love, Committed Relationships." Here are some fast facts about her:

1) She is Professor of Old Testament at Virginia Theological Seminary.

2) In backwards order: She received her Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible from Yale University in 1999. She earned her M.Div. from Yale Divinity School in 1990 and her A.B. in English from Princeton University with certificates in African-American Studies and American Studies in 1984.

3) She was the director of the Black Ministries Program at Hartford Seminary in the years she spent teaching there. She is currently a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, is an active participant in the Bakhtin and Biblical Studies Group, and she serves on the Advisory Board for the Office of Religious Life at Princeton University.

4) She has a number of published essays and most recently published a commentary on the book of Ruth.

5) She is married to Kevin Williams, M.D. and they have two children, Samantha and Jacob.

(Info from the Virginia Theological Seminary website.)