Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss, Ph.D. is Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Provost and Associate Professor of Bible at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She received a B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987, was ordained at HUC-JIR in New York in 1993, and earned her doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. She is co-editor of American Values, Religious Voices: 100 Days, 100 Letters (University of Cincinnati Press, 2019), associate editor of The Torah: A Women's Commentary (CCAR Press, 2008), and author of Figurative Language in Biblical Prose Narrative: Metaphor in the Book of Samuel (Brill, 2006). Her research focuses on metaphor, biblical poetry, and biblical conceptions of God.