Mahri Leonard-Fleckman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She has published widely on the intersections between composition history, historical methods, and scribal practices in the ancient Levant. She is the author of The House of David: Between Political Formation and Literary Revision, co-author with Alice Laffey of The Book of Ruth in the Wisdom Commentary Series, and co-editor of two volumes. She is currently co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Elements series The Ancient Near Eastern World and the Bible (ANEWB).