BERNADETTE BROOTEN, Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies, supervises graduate work in the areas of New Testament, Second Temple Judaism, early Christian literature, Hellenistic Judaism, and other branches of ancient Post-Biblical Judaism. She co-directs (with Prof. Reuven Kimelman) the doctoral and postdoctoral Brandeis Seminar on Early Judaism and Christianity, which includes research in Rabbinic literature, early Jewish liturgy and various aspects of early Christianity. She has written Women Leaders in The Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues (Scholars Press, 1982) and Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (University of Chicago Press, 1996). In addition, she has published articles on Paul and the Jewish Law, Jewish epigraphy, papyrological and literary evidence for Jewish women's power to initiate divorce in antiquity, and on various topics of ancient Jewish and early Christian women's history. Professor Brooten is a recent recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Ford Foundation grant on sexual ethics and religious traditions.