James D. Nogalski

James Nogalski holds the Craig Chair of Old Testament in the Department of Religion at Baylor University, where he has taught since 2007 after teaching at institutions in South Carolina, Kentucky, Illinois, and North Carolina. Nogalski is best known for his ongoing work in prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible, and especially in the Book of the Twelve (Hosea through Malachi). Recently, Nogalski published his first novel, Murder in the Tidwell Building, which he co-wrote with his long-time friend and collaborator, Mark Biddle, whom he has known since they went to college together.

Nogalski grew up in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kentucky. After graduating Samford University, he completed a Master of Divinity degree at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky before completing a Master of Theology in Old Testament at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Rüschlikon (a suburb of Zurich), and his doctoral degree at the University of Zurich.