Danna Nolan Fewell is an Old Testament scholar. She is John Fletcher Hurst Professor of Hebrew Bible at Drew University Theological School. Fewell studied at Candler School of Theology, Emory University and previously taught at the Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Fewell has enjoyed a successful association with David M. Gunn, with whom she has co-authored several articles and three books: Compromising Redemption: Relating Characters in the Book of Ruth; Gender, Power, and Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story; and Narrative in the Hebrew Bible. Fewell and Gunn represent a postmodern literary approach to biblical literature. Her other works include Circle of Sovereignty: Plotting Politics in the Book of Daniel (1991), The Children of Israel: Reading the