Fr. Michael D. Guinan, OFM, a Franciscan priest, received his PhD in Semitic Languages and Literatures from the Catholic University of America in 1972. After 50 years of teaching Old Testament, Hebrew and Aramaic and biblical spirituality at the Franciscan School of Theology, first in Berkeley and then in San Diego, he is now Professor Emeritus.
He has written for the New Jerome Biblical Commentary, the Collegeville Bible Commentary and the Message of Biblical Spirituality series, contributed to the Anchor Bible Dictionary and the New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, and recorded audio courses on the Old Testament for Learn25.