Simo Parpola (“The Magi and the Star”) is professor of Assyriology and director of the State Archives of Assyria Centre of Excellence at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and published numerous books and articles on a wide range of topics, including Mesopotamian science and astrology, Assyrian history, royal ideology and religion and ancient Near Eastern geography. Parpola explored the Mesopotamian roots of Jewish and Christian traditions in “Sons of God,”AO 02:05.
Author of Understanding Early Christian Art (Routledge, 2000), Robin M. Jensen (“Witnessing the Divine”) is associate professor of the history of Christianity at Andover Newton Theological School, in Massachusetts. Named a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 2001–2002, Jensen is currently writing Living Water: The Symbolism of Early Christian Baptism (Hendrickson).
Dieter Georgi (“Was the Early Church Jewish?”) is professor of New Testament at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in his hometown, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He has taught periodically at Harvard Divinity School and is the author of several books on Paul, including The Opponents of Paul in Second Corinthians (Fortress, 1986) and Remembering the Poor (Abingdon, 1992).
Steven W. Holloway (“Mad to See the Monuments”) received his Ph.D. in Old Testament from the University of Chicago. He teaches on an adjunct basis in the Chicago area and works full-time for the American Theological Library Association. Holloway has published and lectured extensively on the Bible, Assyriology and their common ground in the 19th century. His book, Asûsûur Is King!Asûsûur Is King!Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire, is forthcoming from Brill.
Simo Parpola (“The Magi and the Star”) is professor of Assyriology and director of the State Archives of Assyria Centre of Excellence at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and published numerous books and articles on a wide range of topics, including Mesopotamian science and astrology, Assyrian history, royal ideology and religion and ancient Near Eastern geography. Parpola explored the Mesopotamian roots of Jewish and Christian traditions in “Sons of God,” AO 02:05. Author of Understanding Early Christian Art (Routledge, 2000), Robin M. Jensen (“Witnessing the Divine”) is associate professor of […]
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