Juliana Claassens is Professor in Old Testament with a focus on human dignity at the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University. Her most recent book Claiming Her Dignity: Female Resistance in the Old Testament has recently been published with Liturgical Press (2016). She is also the author of  Mourner, Mother, Midwife: Reimagining God’s Liberating Presence (Westminster John Knox, 2012) and The God who Provides: Biblical Images of Divine Nourishment (Abingdon, 2004). She serves as the Head of the Gender Unit at the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University.