Rabbi Dr. Devorah Schoenfeld

Rabbi Dr. Devorah Schoenfeld is Associate Professor in the Theology department at Loyola University Chicago, where she teaches Judaism, Bible, Comparative Religion and Jewish-Christian Relations. Her book, Isaac on Jewish and Christian Altars: Genesis 22 in Rashi and in the Glossa Ordinaria, compares medieval Jewish and Chrisitan approaches to the akedah, and she has also written on midrash, comparative theology, and dream interpretation. She is a member of Anshe Shalom Bnai Israel in Chicago. Rabbi Devorah holds an MA in Comparative Religion from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a PhD from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.