Prof. Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss is Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Provost at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and Associate Professor of Bible in its New York campus. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (NELC), and ​Rabbinic Ordination from HUC-JIR, New York​. ​Weiss served as Associate Editor of The Torah: A Women’s Commentary and Campaign Coordinator for “American Values Religious Voices: 100 Days. 100 Letters.” She is author of Figurative Language in Biblical Prose Narrative: Metaphor in the Book of Samuel.