Dan McClellan is a public scholar of the Bible and religion who works to increase public access to the academic study of the Bible and religion and to combat the spread of misinformation about the same. He received his PhD in theology and religion from the University of Exeter, and his research specializations focus on the conceptualization of deity, scripture, and religious identity through the methodological lenses of critical biblical studies, cognitive linguistics, and the cognitive science of religion. In addition to a number of journal articles, book chapters, and dictionary and encyclopedia entries, he has published the open-access monograph, YHWH's Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach, and the New York Times bestselling trade book, The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture's Most Controversial Issues.