Dan McClellan: Interpreting the Bible Accurately

Dan McClellan is originally from West Virginia, but has lived in Maryland, California, Colorado, Texas, Uruguay, Utah, the United Kingdom, and Washington State. He received a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University in ancient Near Eastern studies, where he focused on Biblical Hebrew and minored in Classical Greek. He completed a master of studies in Jewish studies at the University of Oxford in July of 2010 and a master of arts in biblical studies in 2013 at Trinity Western University just outside of Vancouver, BC. In early 2020, he defended his doctoral dissertation written for the University of Exeter on the cognitive science of religion and the conceptualization of deity and divine agency in the Hebrew Bible. He’s published articles in the Journal of Biblical Literature, Biblical Interpretation, The Religious Educator, and more.