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Roberta Sabbath earned her doctoral degree in comparative literature from University of California, Riverside. Sabbath publishes and speaks in the religious and cultural studies fields. She serves as President 2025-2026 of the American Academy of Religion-Western Region as well as AARWR Nevada Regional Representative and Jewish Studies Unit Co-Chair. She also serves on the International Society of Biblical Literature Qur’an and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspectives Unit and the American Academy of Religion  Comparative Studies in Religions Unit.

Sabbath's monograph is Sacred Body: Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination (Lexington Press, Jewish Studies Series 2023). She also edited Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an as Literature and Culture (Brill Press 2009); Troubling Topics, Sacred Texts: Readings in Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an (De Gruyter Press 2022); and Vegas Strong: Bearing Witness 1 October 2017 (University of Nevada Press 2023); and co-edited with Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh Sacred Cultures in Global Politics (DeGruyter Brill forthcoming 2026). She brought the Western Jewish Studies Conference in person to ÐÔÊӽ紫ý in spring 2023 after a virtual conference earlier during COVID, and she was also involved in bringing the American Academy of Religion-Western Region Conference to ÐÔÊӽ紫ý in spring 2024 and 2026.

Sabbath teaches religion and literature, Bible as literature (Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Qur’an), mythology, and world literature. Sabbath created the Hate Uncycled: 4 Conversations series for ÐÔÊӽ紫ý Townhall events spring 2021 and collaborated with the ÐÔÊӽ紫ý Dance Department for and the Veterans Choreographic Collaboration, both dance documentaries.