James L. Crenshaw, the Robert L. Flowers Emeritus Professor of Old Testament at Duke University, was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1984-1985 and in 2006-2007 the Joseph McCarthy Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. Before moving to Duke in 1987, he taught five years at Mercer and nineteen years at Vanderbilt. He is the series editor of Personalities of the Old Testament (University of South Carolina Press) and lives in Nashville. His most recent books are Dust and Ashes: Poems, Reading Job: A Literary and Theological Commentary, and Qoheleth: The Ironic Wink.