Adam Howell grew up in the hills of Appalachia in the northeast corner of Tennessee. He attended East Tennessee State University, earning a double major in Microbiology and Chemistry. Howell played football for the ETSU Buccaneers as a long snapper for both punts and extra points. While in college, Howell served as a college pastor at Boone Trail Baptist Church and served in several on-campus college ministries, including Campus Crusade for Christ, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and a grass roots ministry called The Well.
In addition to a regular teaching schedule, Howell is the author of Ruth: A Guide to Reading Biblical Hebrew and co-author of Hebrew for Life: Strategies for Learning, Retaining, and Reviving Biblical Hebrew, Ruth: An Illustrated Hebrew Reader’s Edition, and Illustrated 1 Kings in Hebrew. He serves on the editorial review board for Bulletin of Biblical Research and has published articles in both academic and popular journals. Howell is the host of Daily Dose of Hebrew, which seeks to keep students and pastors engaged with their Hebrew Bibles for life.
Howell is married to Liz and they have four children: Noah, Tovah, Judah, and Norah.