Robert D. Sacks received his undergraduate education at St. John’s College, ­Annapolis, ­Maryland (B.A. 1954) and his graduate education at The Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D. 1961). He also studied at the Ecole des Langues Orientales ­Vivantes in Paris, ­Hebrew University, ­Jerusalem, and the University of ­Chicago. 

Sacks has taught at St. John’s College since 1960, at both the ­Annapolis and the Santa Fe Campuses; he has been a visiting ­faculty member at Middlebury College in Vermont and St. Mary’s College in California.

Sacks is the author of A Commentary on the Book of ­Genesis ­(Edwin Mellen Press, 1990) and Beginning Biblical Hebrew: ­Intentionality and Grammar (Kafir Yaroq Books, 2008). An ­earlier ­version of the present book appeared as The Book of Job with ­Commentary: A Translation for Our Time (Scholars Press, 1999); the present edition has been extensively revised.