Brady Whitehead is a professor of religion and former chaplain at Lambuth University in Jackson, Tennessee. Brady has an undergraduate degree from Rhodes College, two master's degrees from Emory University, and a doctorate from Boston University School of Theology. He authored Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther for the Basic Bible Commentary series, has written for Adult Bible Studies, and made his latest contribution to the Bible Reader Series with God's Care for Us: A Study of Ezekiel.