Dr. Dan McClellan is a public scholar of the Bible and religion. Before transitioning to full-time work as a public scholar, Dan worked for ten years as a scripture translation supervisor for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He has also worked as an adjunct instructor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University. Dan completed a BA in ancient Near Eastern studies at Brigham Young University, an MSt in Jewish studies at the University of Oxford, an MA in biblical studies at Trinity Western University, and a PhD in theology and religion at Exeter University, where he wrote his dissertation, “Deity and Divine Agency in the Hebrew Bible: Cognitive Perspectives,” under the supervision of Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou. Dan’s research focuses on history, textual criticism, and conceptualizations of deity, scripture, and religious identity. Dan’s most recent publications include “‘Go Ye and Learn What That Meaneth’: Mercy and the Law in the Old Testament’s Prophetic Literature and in the Gospels,” in Covenant of Compassion: The 50th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, “Forming Divine Bodies in the Hebrew Bible,” in Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies, and “2 Nephi 25:23 in Literary and Rhetorical Context,” in The Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. A revised version of his dissertation was published in 2022 as the open-access volume, YHWH’s Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach.