Anathea Portier-Young (b. 1973) was born in Ohio and grew up in Emmitsburg, Maryland. After studying Classics at Yale (PBK) and completing a junior semester abroad at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies (ICCS) in Rome, she earned an MA in Biblical Languages at the Graduate Theological Union and Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California. After an all too short summer sojourn in San Diego, she then came to (the also sunny and beautiful) North Carolina, where she has lived since 1998. She completed doctoral studies at Duke University's Graduate Program in Religion, focusing in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament with minors in New Testament and History of Biblical Interpretation.Anathea Portier-Young is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School. Her current research focuses on Second Temple Judaism, ancient apocalyptic literature, questions of genre in the study of early Jewish literature, biblical traditions of violence and nonviolence, the interrelation of gender, ethnicity, identity, and biological and social bodies and the relation of ALL these to the project of biblical theology. She is currently writing The Theology of the Book of Daniel for Cambridge University Press.