Brent A. Strawn

Brent A. Strawn is associate professor of Old Testament at the Candler School of Theology and Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University, where he is also affiliated with the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies and a senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He is the author of What Is Stronger than a Lion? Leonine Image and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (Academic Press and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005) and editor of The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us About the Good Life (Oxford University Press, 2012).