Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos, a native of The Netherlands, taught as professor of Old Testament at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary from 1977 to 2017. She serves the Presbyterian Church as an ordained pastor and is deeply engaged with issues of equity in terms of gender and race. Born in occupied Europe during the Shoah, she is committed to an analysis of Christian-Jewish relations and improvement of these relations, especially in terms of a Christian reading of Scripture. Her commentaries on the Former Prophets appeared in 2021. She assists Rabbi David Ariel-Joel in teaching Torah at the Temple in Louisville and is co-writing a volume with him: Set Apart: Josef and His Family (Smyth & Helwys, forthcoming).