Dr. Jeffrey Geoghegan received his PhD in History from the University of California, San Diego, and has taught history and religion for the past twenty years at several universities, including UCSD, Boston College, and the University of San Diego. He currently teaches at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, California, where he holds the Gretchen Stroschein Thomson Chair in History, and is the author or coauthor of a number of books and articles on the Bible, including The Nine Commandments (Doubleday), The Time, Place, and Purpose of the Deuteronomistic History (Brown University), and The Bible for Dummies (Wiley).