Biography

Julia M. O’Brien is Professor Emerita, Lancaster Theological Seminary and Moravian University. She is the author of three commentaries on the Minor Prophets (including Micah, Liturgical Press, 2015), as well as the monographs Challenging Prophetic Metaphor: Theology and Ideology in the Prophets (Westminster John Knox, 2008) and Prophets beyond Activism: Rethinking the Prophetic Roots of Social Justice (Westminster John Knox Press, 2024).  She edited the Oxford Handbook of the Minor Prophets (Oxford, 2021) and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Bible and Gender Studies (Oxford, 2014), and is currently writing a commentary on Second Isaiah for the new Interpretation series (Westminster John Knox) and serving as an associate editor for The New Oxford Annotated Bible, sixth edition.

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