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Margaret Nutting Ralph, PhD, is secretary of educational ministries for the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky. She also directs the master's degree programs for Roman Catholics at the Lexington Theological Seminary. Her doctorate from the University of Kentucky is in English Literature with a concentration in the Bible as literature. For the past thirty years she has taught Scripture to grade school, high school, college, and graduate students, and to adult education groups. Margaret is the author of eight books on Scripture, all published by Paulist Press.