RICHARD ELLIOTT FRIEDMAN is one of the premier bible scholars in the country. He earned his doctorate at Harvard and was a visiting fellow at Oxford and Cambridge, a Senior Fellow of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Haifa. He is the Ann & Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies Emeritus of the University of Georgia and the Katzin Professor of Jewish Civilization Emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of /Commentary on the Torah/, /The Disappearance of God/, /The Hidden Book in the Bible/, /The Bible with Sources Revealed/, /The Bible Now/, /The Exile and Biblical Narrative/, the bestselling /Who Wrote the Bible?/, and most recently, /The Exodus/. His books have been translated into thirteen languages. He was a consultant for Dreamworks’ /The Prince of Egypt/, for Alice Hoffman's /The Dovekeepers/, and for NBC, A&E, PBS, and Nova.