Samuel L BoydSamuel L. Boyd is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies and in the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He studies the Hebrew Bible and the historical contexts of its production in he ancient Near East. Boyd also researches the reception of the Bible in religious communities from antiquity to the present. He has authored numerous articles in academic journals as well as popular writings in venues such as theconversation.com. His first book, Language Contact, Colonial Administration, and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Israel, was published by Brill in the Harvard Semitic Monographs series. Read More Read Less