Maria E. DoerflerMaria E. Doerfler is Associate Professor of Late Antiquity in Yale's Department of Religious Studies. Her prior monograph, Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah's Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2021) won the Americn Academy of Religion's Best First Book prize in the History of Religions category. Her work focuses on practices of interpretation in times of personal or communal crisis. Read More Read Less