Nathaniel E. Greene is a Lecturer in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the Department of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen. He holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His forthcoming book,  Warlord and Scribe: The Nascent Israelite State beneath Its Textual Veneers, is an examination of 1 Samuel 9–14 in light of the archaeological and textual realities of 1 Samuel in the eleventh–ninth centuries BCE.