Helen is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in Religious Studies with a focus in Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity. Her degrees include a BA in Liberal Arts from New Saint Andrews College, an MTS in Jewish Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and an MA in Religious Studies from UVA. Her broad research areas are Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic Judaism, more specifically reception history of the Hebrew Bible and the theological questions and concepts arising from early biblical interpretations. Her current research focuses on the rabbinic interpretation of the suffering of God in the book of Jeremiah, how lament poetry functions as theological discourse, and the best way to write a dissertation while surrounded by three of the world's cutest children.