Education
Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies, U.C. Berkeley, June 1990
B.A. in Semitic Languages, Cornell University, December 1976
Bio
Elaine Goodfriend received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies in 1990 from U.C. Berkeley. She has been teaching at California State University, Northridge, in the Dept. of Religious Studies and the Program for Judaism Studies since 1998. Ms. Goodfriend has also taught at the University of Southern California, Hebrew Union College, and Claremont Graduate School. Her interests are the Hebrew Bible and Judaism Law and she has published articles on TheTorah.com, Judaism Bible Quarterly, and Anchor Bible Dictionary.
Publications
"Is Deuteronomy 22:10 a Double-Entendre?" Judaism Bible Quarterly, 52 (July – September 2024). “Qatlanit: The ‘Killer-Wife’,” at TheTorah.com, https://www.thetorah.com/article/qatlanit-the-killer-wife, January 2024.