Markus Zehnder is professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Talbot School of Theology (California), professor II at Ansgar Teologiske Høgskole (Norway), and visiting professor at the ETF Leuven (Belgium). He earned his PhD at the University of Basel, where he also got his Habilitation, and completed postdoctoral studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. He has published on various topics, especially related to the fields of biblical Hebrew and biblical ethics.