Dr. Liora Ravid is a biblical historian and has shared the language and landscape of the biblical characters throughout her life. She studied the social and legal norms of the biblical age, explaining the reasons behind the actions of its most prominent figures. With a PhD in biblical studies, she has dared to ask questions, such as: Who were the judges who condemned felons before the establishment of courts? What was the accepted marital age? And why does the Bible allow, and even encourage, men to have multiple wives—and what determined their hierarchy?

If you would ask Ravid what the secret to the Bible’s everlasting popularity is, she would say that the Bible talks mainly about simple people, who loved and hated, celebrated and mourned, who had families and raised their children. Despite the millennia separating us from them, we still recognize ourselves in their stories.