Emily A. Filler is Assistant Professor in the Study of Judaism at Washington and Lee University, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Jewish Ethics. Her work has been published in the Journal of Religious Ethics, Religions, Shofar, the Journal of Textual Reasoning, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and several edited volumes. She is currently completing her first monograph, a study of modern Jewish philosophy, biblical violence, and the virtues of plain sense interpretation.