Daniel E. Fleming is Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Along with other books and numerous articles, he is the author of Democracy's Ancient Ancestors: Mari and Early Collective Governance (Cambridge, 2004) and The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition (Cambridge, 2012).
'Fleming's thesis certainly strikes out on its own within debate about the Midianite hypothesis and the origins of Yahweh, but I think it often makes more judicious and careful use of the data, particularly in its interrogation of the Egyptian inscriptions at Soleb and 'Amarah West. There is a degree of speculation involved that is inevitable with trying to take steps into the dark ... but I would argue Fleming's volume asks more interesting questions that have the potential to contribute to a more robust and productive engagement with what few data are available to us.' Daniel O. McClellan, Journal of the American Academy of Religion