David W. Hester is associate professor of New Testament at the V. P. Black College of Biblical Studies at Faulkner University. He also serves as the director of the Faulkner Bible Lectureship. He is the author of Does Mark 16:9-20 Belong in the New Testament? (2015), Tampering with Truth (2007), and Among the Scholars (1994). David is happily married to Brenda (thirty-five years) and lives in Montgomery, Alabama.