Nanette Stahl is Judaica curator at the Yale University Library. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in Hebrew literature and Bible. Before arriving at Yale she was head librarian at the Jewish Community Library of the Bureau of Jewish Education in San Francisco and Judaica bibliographer at the Library of the School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, where her responsibilities included building a Jewish law collection. She is the author of Law and Liminality in the Bible.