Weston W. Fields is the executive director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation. A member of the Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research, Fields earned his first doctorate (Th.D.) at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana, and for ten years was associate professor of Classical Languages and Bible at Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary. Fields earned a Ph.D. in Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His dissertation, "Sodom and Gomorrah: Tradition, Motifs and Meaning in Genesis 18, 19," was written under the direction of Professor Shemaryahu Talmon. Fields authored the notes on Jeremiah and Lamentations for the study-reference edition of the New American Standard Bible.