Rebecca Watson is Tutor in Old Testament and Director of Studies at the Eastern Region Ministry Course, Cambridge and Senior Tutor for the Christian, Rural and Environmental Studies (CRES) Programme, based at Ripon College, Cuddesdon. Since completing her doctorate at Oxford, she has spent many years in theological education, preparing people for ordained ministry, mainly in the Church of England, and has held research fellowships at Derby and Cambridge Universities. Her research interests centre around interdisciplinary and dialogue. This includes exploration of the relation between Canaanite and biblical religions, in her latest book, executed through debate between scholars with contrasting views; ecological criticism of the Bible, especially as concerns the sea and its creatures; and psychological approaches to the Psalms.