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Nuria Calduch-Benages, born in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain), is Professor of Old Testament at the Pontifical Gregorian University and Invited Professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, Italy. Her research focuses on wisdom literature, deuterocanonical books, especially Sirach, biblical anthropology, biblical metaphors, and women studies. Among other publications, she is author of “Polygamy in Ben Sira?,” in Family and Kinship in the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, ed. Angelo Passaro (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), 127–38. Reprinted in Nuria Calduch-Benages, For Wisdom’s Sake: Collected Essays on the Book of Ben Sira (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021).