Dan McClellan

Biblical scholar

Dan McClellan is a public-facing scholar of the Bible and religion. He received his PhD in theology and religion from the University in Exeter, and his research focuses on conceptualizations of deity, scripture, and religious identity through the methodological lenses of biblical criticism, cognitive linguistics, and the cognitive science of religion. In 2022, he published a revised version of his dissertation as the open-access volume, YHWH's Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach. Dan produces content on social media that increases public access to the academic study of the Bible and religion, and combats the spread of misinformation about the same. He is also one of two Dans who host the Data Over Dogma Podcast.