Rabbi Dr. Robert A. Daum is the Director of Iona Pacific Inter-religious Centre and Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Thought at Vancouver School of Theology.[1] Dr. Daum received a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in Hebrew Literature from Hebrew Union College, and a BA magna cum laude from Tufts University. He held the Diamond Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia,[2] where he currently holds an appointment as Honorary Associate Professor. He also is a Faculty Associate in the UBC Centre of Women’s and Gender Studies. In May 2011 Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion awarded him the degree Doctor of Divinity honoris causa. He is a co-editor of, and a contributor to, The Calling of the Nations: Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present (University of Toronto Press, 2011). His scholarly publications include articles in the journals Florilegium and The Jewish Quarterly Review.