achel Havrelock is completing a PhD in the Joint Doctoral Program in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union. Her dissertation, Crossing the Jordan River: Biblical Borders and Identities, concerns Jordan River crossing and immersion stories in the Hebrew Bible, Gospels and the exegetical literature of late antiquity.

Rachel is a lecturer in Jewish Studies and Classics at the University of Illinois, Chicago and will become an assistant professor upon the completion of her degree. In 2002-2003, Rachel was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Swarthmore College. Her academic interests include Hebrew Bible, biblical interpretation, midrash, the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels, Islamic stories of the prophets, gender studies and Jewish, Israeli and Palestinian folklore.

She is the co-author of Women on the Biblical Road: Ruth, Naomi and the Female Journey (University Press of America, 1996) and the author of articles concerning women in the Bible and the Bible in American film. Rachel holds a BA with honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz (1994) and an MA from the Joint Doctoral Program in Jewish Studies (2000). She has studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1992-1993), Tel Aviv University (1997-1998), and Bir Zeit University (1999).

Rachel has written and directed a play, From Tel Aviv to Ramallah, that premiers at Washington DC’s Theater J in November 2003 and then continues on a national tour.

 

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