Julia M. O'Brien is Professor Emerita of Biblical Studies and the former Paul H. and Grace L. Stern Chair in Old Testament Studies at Lancaster Theological Seminary. She is associate editor of The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, sixth edition; editor in chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies; editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Minor Prophets; and author of Prophets beyond Activism: Rethinking the Prophetic Roots of Social Justice, Challenging Prophetic Metaphor, and Micah in the Wisdom Commentary series.