Nancy L. deClaisse-Walford (PhD, Baylor University) is the Carolyn WardProfessor of Old Testament and BiblicalLanguages at the McAfee School ofTheology at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of Reading fromthe Beginning: The Shaping of the HebrewPsalter, Biblical Hebrew: An IntroductoryTextbook, Introduction to the Psalms: A Songfrom Ancient Israel, and The Book of Psalms(NICOT).