Jacob L. Wright is a professor of Hebrew Bible at Emory University. Publishing widely on the subject of war and national identity in the ancient Near East, he is the author of Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah Memoir and Its Earliest Readers, winner of a 2008 Sir John Templeton Award, as well as a new book on King David: http://www.amazon.com/David-Israel-Caleb-Biblical-Memory/dp/1107672635
