Terence E. Fretheim is Elva B. Lovell Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has published numerous books, including Hope in God in Times of Suffering (Fortress, 2006), About the Bible: Short Answers to Big Questions (Augsburg, 1999), and The Bible as Word of God in a Postmodern Era (Fortress, 1998). He splits his time between Park Ridge, Illinois and Saint Paul, Minnesota.