Prof. Shaul Bar is Professor of Judaic Studies and Director of the Bornblum Judaic Studies program at the University of Memphis. He holds a Ph.D. in Ancient Semitic Languages and Literature from New York University, and is the author of Abraham: A Man Fearing God (Wipf and Stock 2025); Here Comes the Dreamer: The Joseph Story (Wipf and Stock 2023); Samuel: The Man of God (Wipf and Stock 2022); Isaac: The Passive Patriarch (Wipf and Stock 2020); The Samson Story: Love, Seduction, Betrayal, Violence, Riddles, Myth (Wipf and Stock 2018); A Nation Is Born: The Jacob Story (Wipf and Stock 2016); Daily Life of the Patriarchs: The Way It Was (Peter Lang 2014); God's First King - The Story of Saul (Cascade 2013); I Deal Death and Give Life - Biblical Perspective on Death (Gorgias 2010); A Letter That Has not Been Read - Dreams in the Hebrew Bible (HUC 2001).