Jay Sklar (PhD, the University of Gloucestershire), is Professor Old Testament and VP of Academics at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis. His doctoral research was completed under Gordon Wenham and focused on the sacrificial system in Exodus through Numbers, resulting in the book Sin, Impurity, Sacrifice, Atonement: The Priestly Conceptions . He has continued to focus his work on the Bible’s first five books, writing commentaries on Numbers (Story of God, Zondervan) and two on Leviticus ( Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament , Zondervan; Tyndale Old Testament Commentary , IVP). He has also co-authored a Leviticus Bible study and written supplementary books on Leviticus ( Additional Notes on Leviticus ) and Numbers Additional Notes on Numbers ). He has just submitted a commentary on Exodus for Crossway’s ESV Expository Commentary series (for which he serves as one of three general editors and in which he wrote the commentary on Jonah . *As an Amazon Associate, I receive a small percentage from qualifying purchases made at Amazon.