Rebecca Moore has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Marquette Universtiy (1996), where her specialty was Jewish and Christian dialogue. She has written and published on medieval Christian theologians and their debt to Jewish biblical commentary. She co-authored the book A Portable God: The Origin of Judaism and Christianity, with SDSU colleague Risa Levitt Kohn. The book examines how first-century Judaic groups interpreted Israelite religion in a new historical context. Dr. Moore also specializes in American Religion, with a speciality on New Religious Movements, where she has concentrated on explicating a group called Peoples Temple and the events at Jonestown, Guyana in November 1978. This effort can be seen on the website http://jonestown.sdsu.edu. Her book Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple came out from Greenwood Press in March 2009.