Janet Smith PhD

I am 72 years old (in 2017), married to a Geologist/online college prof named Ted. We have two grown sons. We live in Northern California near Sacramento. My first book was actually my PhD dissertation, Dust or Dew: Immortality in the Ancient Near East and in Psalm 49. It's very academic and dense, difficult to read if you are not a scholar who is interested Old Testament/Hebrew Bible subjects. My second book, Psalm 49 and the Path to Redemption, is a rewrite of Dust or Dew, but for the lay person. It's a little different. I cut out a lot of academic info out and changed the direction of the book by adding about 4 new and different chapters. It's really about afterlife now, not just then, but also today. One goal of both books is to introduce the reader into the mind and circumstances of the sages, priests, and prophets who wrote the Psalms. They are real people with real issues that can be felt between the lines of the psalms that they wrote.

We live on an urban creek and I love every minute of it. I have a kindle book called A Year in Eden's Acre: Life on an Urban Creek. We get wild turkeys in our yard by day. By night we see possums, raccoons, and skunks. I love winter because the birds migrate from the mountains into the Valley. I learned to bird watch in the Sacramento region.

We attend a Lutheran Church where I am teaching classes on Old Testament subjects. I love nature, camping, and hiking. Two of my former jobs were educational illustrator and Geologic Draftsperson. I learned the skill of Geologic Drafting in Lexington, KY at the KY Geological Survey on UofK campus. That brought me to San Francisco to the California Division of Mines and Geology. Ted and I met when we worked there in the Ferry Building in San Francisco. After attending many churches in our marriage, we have settled into a definition of our position as Evangelical but not Fundamentalist.

Check out my blog about Christianity, UFOs, and the paranormal. It's called Eternal Gateways, at https://janetkatherinesmith.blogspot.com My email: jksmith@surewest.net