Dr. Ernest Newbrun is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) where he taught oral biology for over 30 years. He received dental degrees from the University of Sydney in 1954, and Alabama in 1959; his graduate degrees are from universities in Rochester, N.Y (M.S.), and University of California San Francisco (Ph.D. biochemistry). He also holds honorary doctorates from University of Lund (Sweden) and Sydney (Australia). Since his retirement from the University of California in 1994, he has been teaching in Lifelong Learning programs at the University of San Francisco Fromm Institute and Sonoma State University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on a variety of topics including “The King David Story in Poetry, Art and Music," " Genesis in Art,” “Exodus in Art.”