Richard E. Averbeck (PhD Annenberg Research Institute, Dropsie College) is Emeritus Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Dr. Averbeck recently authored The Old Testament Law for the Life of the Church (InterVarsity Press, 2022) and co-edited the book Reading Genesis 1-2: An Evangelical Conversation (Hendrickson Academic, 2013)