Who is Christine Roy Yoder?

Christine Roy Yoder is the guest speaker of Episode 13 of the Covenant Bible Study on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. Here are some quick facts about her:

1) She is the professor of Old Testament Language, Literature and Exegesis, as well at the interim Dean of Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs, at Columbia Theological Seminary.

2) She received her BA from Swarthmore College, an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary and a PhD in Old Testament from Princeton Theological Seminary.

3) She has written several books on the wisdom literature of the Old Testament, including Wisdom as a Woman of Substance: A Socioeconomic Reading of Proverbs 1-9 and 31:1-31 and The Senses in Israelite Wisdom Literature.

4) She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian church.

5)  She was named by the Association of Theological Schools and The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. as a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for her book project tentatively titled Contours of Desire in Israelite Wisdom Literature.