Michael B. Shepherd received his PhD in Old Testament Studies from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew and Holder of the John and Allie Fogleman Professorship in Religion at Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana. His previous works include multiple peer-reviewed journal articles as well as the following books published by Peter Lang: The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic: A Distributional Approach, Daniel in the Context of the Hebrew Bible, The Twelve Prophets in the New Testament, and The Textual World of the Bible.