Ronald F. Hock (“The Favored One”) is professor of religion at the University of Southern California. He is a specialist on the social and intellectual world of the New Testament. His translation of the Infancy Gospels of James and Thomas was published by Polebridge Press in 1995.
David R. Cartlidge, who selected the pictures and wrote the captions for “The Favored One”, is Beeson Professor Emeritus of Religion at Maryville College, in Maryville, Tennessee. His book Art and the Christian Apocrypha is forthcoming from Routledge.
Independent scholar Pamela Tamarkin Reis (“Genesis as Rashomon”) has been published in the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Vetus Testamentum and the Journal of the Ancient Near East Society. Her subjects have included Saul and the witch of Endor, Joseph and his brothers, and the wife-sister motif.
Daniel I. Block (“Why Deborah’s Different”) is associate dean in the department of religion at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and an ordained Baptist minister. Block is the author of commentaries on Judges, Ruth and Ezekiel. He also served as general reviewer of the first five books of the Old Testament for the New Living Translation of the Bible.
“It’s Elementary” marks the first collaboration in BR for coauthors John Strugnell and Hanan Eshel. Strugnell has been a professor of Christian origins at Harvard Divinity School for nearly 35 years. He began his studies of Qumran manuscripts in the 1950s and continues to work on them to this day. Eshel, the head of the Archaeological Institute at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and an excavator at Qumran, contributed an article on Jewish ritual baths to the July/August 2000 Biblical Archaeology Review (see “They’re Not Ritual Baths,”BAR 26:04).
Ronald F. Hock (“The Favored One”) is professor of religion at the University of Southern California. He is a specialist on the social and intellectual world of the New Testament. His translation of the Infancy Gospels of James and Thomas was published by Polebridge Press in 1995. David R. Cartlidge, who selected the pictures and wrote the captions for “The Favored One”, is Beeson Professor Emeritus of Religion at Maryville College, in Maryville, Tennessee. His book Art and the Christian Apocrypha is forthcoming from Routledge. Independent scholar Pamela Tamarkin Reis (“Genesis as Rashomon”) has been published in the Journal […]
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