L. Juliana M. Claassens is Professor in Old Testament and Head of the Gender Unit, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. After obtaining her PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary, she taught at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin; Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia; and Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC; before moving back in 2010 to teach at her alma mater. She is the author of Writing and Reading to Survive: Biblical and Contemporary Trauma Narratives in Conversation; Claiming Her Dignity: Female Resistance in the Old Testament; Mourner, Mother, Midwife: Reimagining God's Delivering Presence in the Old Testament; and The God Who Provides: Biblical Images of Divine Nourishment. Her research and teaching interests include trauma hermeneutics; feminism, postcolonial and queer interpretation of the Hebrew Bible.

In this latest addition to the Old Testament Library, Juliana Claassens delves into the theological questions posed by the book of Jonah in the context of a community making sense of their harrowing experiences of imperial domination.