Arthur A. Just Jr. was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1953. His family lived overseas in Mexico and Spain for twelve years during his formative years. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Union College, Schenectady, New York, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and English literature in 1975. He attended Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana, receiving a M.Div. degree in 1980. His vicarage was at South Shore Trinity Lutheran Church in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. His first parish was at Grace Lutheran Church in Middletown, Connecticut from 1980 to 1984.

Dr. Just studied at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut (1982) and at Yale Divinity School (1983-1984), receiving his S.T.M. from Yale in New Testament and Liturgics in 1984. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Durham in England in 1990 in the New Testament.

Dr. Just has been on the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, since 1984. He is presently Professor of Exegetical Theology and Director of Deaconess Studies. He teaches New Testament, liturgics, homiletics, catechetics, and pastoral theology. He has contributed a chapter on “Liturgical Renewal in the Parish" to Lutheran Worship: History and Practice by Concordia Publishing House, articles on preaching, liturgy, and New Testament in various periodicals, and his doctoral thesis, The Ongoing Feast: Table Fellowship and Eschatology at Emmaus, was published in 1993 by Pueblo Publishing Company, an imprint of The Liturgical Press. Dr. Just published a two-volume commentary on the Gospel of Luke for the Concordia Commentary. The first volume appeared in December 1996 and the second volume in November of 1997. He recently published the Lukan volume for the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture from InterVarsity Press, Thomas C. Oden, General Editor ( February 2003). He is also chairman of the Lectionary Committee for the Lutheran Hymnal Project for the Commission on Worship and a member of the Steering Committee. He and his wife Linda have three children, Abigail (22), Nicholas (18), and Jacob (14).