Shaul Bar is Bornblum Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies at the University of Memphis. He is the author of A Letter That Has Not Been Read: Dreams in the Hebrew Bible (2001), I Deal Death and Give Life (2010), God's First King: The Story of Saul (2013), Daily Life of the Patriarchs (2014), A Nation is Born: The Jacob Story (2016), The Samson Story, Love, Seduction, Betrayal, Violence, Riddles, Myth (2018), Isaac: The Passive Patriarch (2019), Samuel: The Man of God (2022), and Here Comes the Dreamer: The Joseph Story (2023).
