James Jordan was born in 1949. His father was a professor of French Literature and his mother a piano teacher and a poetess. He graduated with an A.B. in 1971 from the University of Georgia, with a major in Comparative Literature and minors in Music and in Political Philosophy. He served as a Military Historian in the US Air Force for four years. He began seminary training at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS, and graduated with an M.A.R. and a Th.M. from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, majoring in Systematic Theology. He thesis was on Slavery in the Bible. In 1980, Mr. Jordan became director of Geneva Ministries in Tyler, TX, where he also served as a pastor in a Presbyterian congregation. In 1987 he founded Biblical Horizons, presently located in Niceville, FL. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from Central School of Religion in 1993. Beginning in 1999, Mr. Jordan served part time as Professor of Biblical Studies at the Reformed Theological Seminary of St. Petersburg, Russia. Mr. Jordan is married to Brenda, and has two grown sons, Dale and Douglas. He is author of more than a dozen books, scores of monographs, and hundreds of short essays. He writes and lectures mainly in the areas of Biblical and Liturgical Theology. His most recent book is The Handwriting on the Wall: A Commentary on Daniel. He is presently at work on a commentary on the book of Zechariah.