David M. Howard, Jr., is Professor of Old Testament at Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Emeritus Professor of Old Testament at Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is an Affiliated Faculty member for the Ph.D. program at Gateway Seminary in California and also taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He has written or edited 17 books, including The Structure of Psalms 93-100 , An Introduction to the Old Testament Historical Books , Reading the Psalms Theologically , and the Handbooks for Old Testament Exegesis series.

He has taught extensively in Eastern Europe and East and Southeast Asia, and is a past president of the Evangelical Theological Society. He holds M.A. degrees in Old Testament and Near Eastern Studies from Wheaton College and the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan under David Noel Freedman.