Rav Yaakov Beasley
Rav Yaakov Beasley is the Tanakh Coordinator at Yeshivat Lev haTorah and is completing a doctorate on the book of Micah at Bar Ilan University. He is the author of an upcoming volume on Nahum, Habbakuk and Zephaniah for the Maggid Studies in Tanakh series. Rav Yaakov has been teaching and writing about Tanakh for almost twenty years. A popular lecturer around Jerusalem and Israel, including such yeshivot as Matan, Darchei Noam, Midreshet Rachel, and others, he co-edited Yeshivat Har Etzion's groundbreaking series "Torah MiEtzion" on the application of new literary methodologies to the study of parashat ha-shavua. Additionally, he authored several years of Har Etzion's Virtual Beit Midrash Introduction to the Parasha series, and his articles on Tanakh have appeared in Tradition and other publications.