Rabbi Andrea Weiss, Ph.D.

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Provost; Associate Professor of Bible

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department: Provost’s Office
academic field: Bible and Cognate Studies
campus: National

Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss, Ph.D., is Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Provost and Associate Professor of Bible at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She received a B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987 and was ordained by HUC-JIR in New York in 1993. She earned her doctoral degree in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. She is the founder of the American Values, Religious Voices campaign, co-editor of American Values, Religious Voices: 100 Days, 100 Letters (University of Cincinnati Press, 2019, with the second volume entitled, American Values, Religious Voices: Letters of Hope from People of Faith, forthcoming in Fall 2022). She was associate editor of The Torah: A Women’s Commentary (CCAR Press, 2008), which won the Jewish Book Council’s 2009 Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award. Her other writings include Figurative Language in Biblical Prose Narrative: Metaphor in the Book of Samuel (Brill, 2006) and articles on metaphor, biblical poetry, and biblical conceptions of God. Her current research focuses on an in-depth study of biblical metaphors for God entitled “God in the Biblical Imagination: The Mechanics and Theology of Metaphor.”

“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers”: Biblical Insights on Disappointment and Hope

“How Long”: Turning to Psalms in Times of Crisis

Speaking Religious Truth to Political Power

“Give us a holding among our kin”: The Inception and Reception of The Torah: A Women’s Commentary

Jeremiah 17 and the Teaching of the Trees

Teaching Bible to Adult Learners

The Poetry and Power of the Psalms

Biblical Prophets

Literary Artistry of the Bible

Torah Commentaries in Context

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

M.A.H.L. and Rabbinical Ordination, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

B.A. with Honors in English, University of California at Berkeley