Carol J. Dempsey, O. P., assistant professor of biblical studies and theology at the University of Portland (Portland, OR 97203), received her Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America in 1994. She has published articles on both ethical and ecological issues in relation to the prophets and other biblical texts, and most recently in the New Pastoral Dictionary of Biblical Theology (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1996). She is currently working on a book titled Paradigm Shifts for a New Creation: A Liberationist-Critical Reading of the Prophets, edited by Alice L. Laffey, to be published by Fortress Press. She is co-convener of the Feminist Hermeneutics Task Force for the Catholic Biblical Association and convener of the Scripture section for the College Theology Society.