Joel S. Baden is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale University and the director of the Center for Continuing Education at Yale Divinity School. He holds a PhD in Hebrew Bible from Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Composition of the Pentateuch and The Historical David. He has published many scholarly articles and essays and has also written widely for a popular audience, in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Slate, the Los Angeles Times, and the Daily Beast.