Dr. Tina M. Sherman is an editor for TheTorah.com. She holds a Ph.D in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, and she lectures in Bible at the University of Minnesota. Her first book, Plant Metaphors in Prophetic Condemnations of Israel and Judah (SBL 2023), examines how the prophetic authors used plant metaphors to portray the condemnation and punishment of Israel and Judah in terms of the everyday work of crop farming and plant husbandry. She is also the author of the “Biblical Metaphor Annotated Bibliography” (2014) and co-author, with Bernard M. Levinson, of “Law and Legal Literature” in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel (2016).