Who is Amy Erickson?

 Amy Erickson is the guest speaker for Episode 19 of the Covenant Bible Study on the book of Job. Here are some quick facts about her:

1. She is associate professor of Hebrew Bible and the director of the Masters of Theological Studies program at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. The courses that she teaches include: The Body and Sexuality in the Hebrew Bible, (Re-)Constructing Identity in the Persian Period, and The Afterlives of Jonah.
2. She received her BA from Bates College, her MDiv from Columbia Theological Seminary, and her PhD in Old Testament from Princeton Theological Seminary.
3. She has written articles on Jonah, Job, the Psalms, Zechariah, and Amos. She is a regular contributor to The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, workingpreacher.org and the Huffington Post ON Scripture.
4. She is an active member of the Society of Biblical Literature and co-chairs the section Megilloth (“Scrolls,” which includes the book of Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther). 
5. She is said to be currently writing a commentary on the book of Jonah and a book on the metaphor of God as enemy in Job's speeches.