Jerry A. Gladson is Professor Emeritus of Religion and Integrative Studies at Richmont Graduate University, Atlanta, Georgia and Senior Minister Emeritus of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Marietta, Georgia. He holds the MA and PhD in Hebrew Scripture from Vanderbilt University. He has taught at Richmont Graduate University; Chapman University, Orange, California; La Sierra University, Riverside, California; Disciples Seminary Foundation, Claremont, California; Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California; Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, Tennessee; and Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. The author of almost two hundred scholarly and popular articles, as well as major commentaries on Job, Ruth, Ecclesiastes, and Daniel, this is his seventeenth book.