Regina Schwartz is professor of literature and law at Northwestern University. She writes on the Bible and its legacy, and religion and its secular afterlife, in volumes including The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism (University of Chicago Press), Remembering and Repeating: On Milton's Theodicy and Poetics (University of Chicago Press), Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism: When God Left the World (Stanford University Press), and most recently, Loving Justice, Living Shakespeare (Oxford University Press). She has edited Transcendence: Philosophy, Literature and Theology Approach the Beyond (Routledge). Her recent essay, "Holy Terror and Holy Law," is on biblical law and justice.