Robert S. Kawashima is an associate professor at the University of Florida, where he teaches in the Department of Religion and the Center for Jewish Studies. Trained in the discipline of comparative literature, he has written on a variety of subjects including the Hebrew Bible, Homer, narrative theory, linguistics, and Proust. He is most notably the author of Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode (Indiana University Press, 2004) and The Archaeology of Ancient Israelite Knowledge (Indiana University Press, 2022).