stephen spector

Is God a Good Parent?

Wednesday, October 21st, 2026 - 7:00-8:30pm ET

Wednesday, October 21st, 7:00-8:30pm ET

In partnership with the Jewish Publication Society

Is God a Good Parent?

Stephen Spector is a professor emeritus of English at Stony Brook University. He taught courses in the Bible as literature and medieval English literature for fifty years at Stony Brook and one year as a Visiting Scholar at Hebrew University Jerusalem. He’s been a senior research fellow at Wesleyan University twice and at the National Humanities Center. He has also held a number of fellowships, grants, and prizes. He has written nine books, two of which are about Israel: Operation Solomon, on the rescue of the Ethiopian Jews, and Evangelicals and Israel, on Christian Zionism. Both were published by Oxford University Press. Stephen lives on Long Island with his wife.

Stephen is the author of “God and the First Families: Parenting, Trauma, and Healing in the Book of Genesis.”

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