Dr. Claudia Setzer, Professor of Religious Studies emerita at Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY, has spoken on Jewish/Christian Relations, early Judaism and New Testament texts, and the Bible in America at numerous academic institutions, churches, synagogues, and conferences. She has presented at Bard College, UCLA, Fordham University, Columbia University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Regensburg. 
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Dr. Setzer recently published The Progressives' Bible (Fortress: 2024), a study of the uses of the Bible in abolitionism, women's rights, temperance, civil rights, and contemporary movements. She recently co-edited with David Shefferman The Bible in the American Experience (SBL Press, 2020), a work that updates the SBL series on the Bible in American Culture series from the 1980s. She and Dr. Shefferman also edited The Bible and American Culture: A Sourcebook which gathers and contextualizes documents that show the Bible’s unique role in American history and culture.
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Other books include Resurrection of the Body in early Judaism and Christianity: Doctrine, Community, and Self Definition (Brill, 2004) and Jewish Responses to Early Christians (Fortress, 1994).  She is also a contributor to Jewish Annotated New Testament, ed. Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler.
 
She has served on the steering committee for the SBL group, "Recovering Women Interpreters of Scripture" and on the editorial board of The Journal of Biblical Literature. She is currently chair of the "Bible in America" group for the Society of Biblical Literature.​​