Azzan Yadin-Israel is a Professor in the Departments of Jewish Studies and Classics at Rutgers University. He has published two books on early legal midrash, a study of the biblical and theological themes in the work of Bruce Springsteen, and is the author of a series on learning foreign languages, in which volumes on German, Spanish, and Ancient Greek have been published. His latest book, Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple was published with the University of Chicago Press in 2023 and named one of the ten best books in Medieval Studies for that year.