Dr. Joseph Ryan Kelly holds a Ph.D. in the Hebrew Bible from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has experience teaching humanities courses in both secondary- and higher-education contexts. He researches the ethical attitudes and perspectives of ancient people preserved in the Hebrew Bible, along with the ethical presuppositions underpinning those attitudes and perspectives. He has written several articles and is now working on a monograph that examines the relationship between ethical norms, concepts of justice, and gods in Ancient Mesopotamia and Greece and compares it to the same in the Hebrew Bible.