Carol Bakhos is Professor of the Study of Religion and of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 2012 she has served as Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA, and Chair of the undergraduate interdisciplinary program in the Study of Religion. Author of several monographs and edited volumes, she works at the intersection of religion, culture, literature and history. Her book The Family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Interpretations (Harvard University Press, 2014) calls attention to affinities between ancient Jewish, late antique Christian and early Qur’anic interpretation, while at the same time highlighting significant distinctions. She is currently working on Emerging Judaism, the second of the ten-volume Posen Jewish Anthology of Culture and Civilization (Yale University Press).