Lehman Strauss was a well known Bible teacher and writer in the USA. He was the teacher on the nationally weekly broadcast, "Bible Study Time." He made various visits to the UK.

Strauss taught Old Testament history for eight years at Philadelphia Bible Institute, and served as pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, Bristol, Pennsylvania, from 1939 to 1957. He was pastor of Highland Park Baptist Church (Highland Park, Michigan) until the end of 1963 when he resigned to devote full time to an itinerant Bible conference work.

He was residing in Florida and writing his 19th book at age 86 when he went home to be with Christ in June 1997.