Dr. Michael Wise is both Scholar-in-Residence and chair of the Biblical & Theological Studies department at the University of Northwestern – Saint Paul, MN. His area of focus is ancient Judaism, as a background to the rise of Christianity. He has studied the Semitic languages in order to immerse himself in rabbinic texts and in the Dead Sea Scrolls; he uses over twenty languages in his research.

Today Dr. Wise is an internationally recognized expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Dr. Wise is ordained as a minister in the Evangelical Free Church and regularly teaches adult Sunday School classes. He is completing work on a second Ph.D., in the field of Classics (ancient Greek and Latin literature), at the University of Minnesota.