Will Kynes is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies (HB/OT) in the Samford University Department of Biblical and Religious Studies. He came to Samford in 2019 after teaching at Whitworth University for six years. Before Whitworth, he spent another six years in the UK, where he completed an M.Litt. at the University of St. Andrews, a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, and then taught at the University of Oxford. He has an M.Div. from Southern Seminary. His research focuses on wisdom and suffering in the Hebrew Bible viewed from the varied perspectives of various biblical texts and their readers across history. His first book, My Psalm Has Turned into Weeping: Job’s Dialogue with the Psalms, earned international recognition in 2015, when it was awarded the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise. His second monograph, An Obituary for “Wisdom Literature”: The Birth, Death, and Intertextual Reintegration of a Biblical Corpus (OUP, 2019) challenges the modern imposition of the “Wisdom” category and its associated post-Enlightenment ideals on the biblical text. He has also edited several collections of essays, including The Oxford Handbook of Wisdom and the Bible (OUP, 2021), and published a number of scholarly articles and essays. Kynes is currently working on an introduction to biblical intertextuality and a book on how different cultures have found hope in the biblical tradition of wrestling with God, for which he undertook archival research at the National Museum of African American History and Culture as a Smithsonian Fellow in 2018.