Dr. Hannah K. Harrington, Professor of Old Testament at Patten University, Oakland, CA, holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley (1992). She has written over seventy publications relating to holiness and ritual purity in Second Temple Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Notable examples include: Holiness: Rabbinic Judaism and the Graeco-Roman World (Routledge, 2001); Purity Texts (Sheffield Academic, 2004); and, The Purity and Sanctuary of the Body in Second Temple Judaism (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019).