Lynn Jost is a professor and program, director of Old Testament and director of the Anabaptist Center at Fresno Pacific University. He graduated from Tabor College and received his MDiv from Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary and his PhD in homiletics and Hebrew Bible from Vanderbilt University. Jost has served as president and academic dean of Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary and has also worked in church planting in Spain and pastoral ministry in Kansas. He and his wife, Donna, have two adult children.