Brittany Melton

Brittany N. Melton (PhD, University of Cambridge) is Assistant Professor of Biblical & Theological Studies at Palm Beach Atlantic University (FL, USA) and Research Fellow of University of the Free State (South Africa). She also serves as the Old Testament Study Group Chair of Tyndale Fellowship.

Her first monograph was published by Brill in 2018: Where is God in the Megilloth? A Dialogue on the Ambiguity of Divine Presence and Absence. Recently she has co-edited two volumes in the LHBOTS (Bloomsbury T&T Clark) series: Reading Lamentations Intertextually, with Heath A. Thomas (2021), and Reading Esther Intertextually, with David G. Firth (2022). She has composed various chapters on the Megilloth and wisdom books, and is currently working on the New Handbook on the Wisdom Books and Psalms for Baker Academic. Her future publications include commentaries on Esther (in the Bible in God's World series), Job (Hodder), and Ruth (Baker Academic).