Peter Machinist (“The Man Moses”) holds the Hancock Professorship of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. He recently edited a commentary on Deutero-Isaiah (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999) and co-edited Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (Helsinki: Helsinki Univ. Press, 1998).
Richard J. Bauckham (“All in the Family”) is professor of New Testament studies at St. Mary’s College, the University of St. Andrews, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He further traces Jesus’ family roots in Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1990).
Allen Kerkeslager (“Mt. Sinai—In Arabia?”) is an assistant professor in the Department of Theology at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Most of his publications concern Hellenistic Judaism, including “Maintaining Jewish Identity in the Greek Gymnasium,” in The Journal for the Study of Judaism.
In 1996, Jack Miles (“Casting Genesis”) received the Pulitzer Prize for God: A Biography, which has been translated into 14 languages. Miles was recently named senior advisor to the president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, in Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times (where he served as book editor and member of the editorial board).
Peter Machinist (“The Man Moses”) holds the Hancock Professorship of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. He recently edited a commentary on Deutero-Isaiah (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999) and co-edited Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (Helsinki: Helsinki Univ. Press, 1998).
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