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Daniel Smith-Christopher is a Quaker from Portland, Oregon, and maintains membership at Reedwood Friends. Named one of the “pioneering scholars” in T. Palmer’s: A Long Road: How Quakers Made Sense of God and the Bible (2018), Daniel also served with Quaker Peace & Service (UK) in Israel/Palestine from 1986 to 1988, and maintains an active interest in peace and justice issues connected to minority and indigenous peoples. Daniel is currently Professor of Old Testament at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he has taught for 32 years, receiving numerous teaching awards. Committed to ecumenical relations, he served for a term on the Theological Commission of the Archdiocese of LA, and is a frequent teacher in the “Catholic Bible Institute”, as well as teaching in United Methodist, Presbyterian, as well as Quaker education programs. Daniel has written and edited over 14 books and 45 academic articles, including commentaries on the Biblical books of

Micah (OTL), Daniel (NIBC), Esdras (Fortress), and Ezra-Nehemiah (Oxford), and his Old Testament textbook (Ave Maria Press) is approved by the American Bishops for Catholic High Schools. He also served as Director of Peace Studies at LMU (2000-2015), and edited: Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of Nonviolence in World Religions (10th Anniversary edition, 2007). Since 2006, Daniel has led summer academic programs in Aotearoa/New Zealand with a strong emphasis on Maori indigenous history and culture, working closely there with the Maori Anglican Archbishop. Daniel attended G.F.U. (B.A.); Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (M.Div., Indiana) and his D.Phil. in Old Testament Studies at Oxford University (UK), in 1986.