Yochanan Muffs (“Agent of the Lord”) is Meyer and Fannie Rapaport Professor of Philosophies of Religion at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. He is the author of Love and Joy: Law, Language and Religion in Ancient Israel (Belknap, 1995) and Studies in the Aramaic Legal Papyri from Elephantine (Brill, 2002).
David R. Cartlidge (“How Can This Be?”) is Ralph W. Beeson Professor Emeritus of Religion at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee. His specialty is early Christian apocrypha and their impact on church art. He selected and described illustrations for Ronald F. Hock’s “The Favored One,”BR 17:03, and is the author (with J. Keith Elliott) of Art and the Christian Apocrypha (Routledge, 2001).
Associate professor of early Christian history at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Andrew McGowan (“December 25”) is the author of Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals (Oxford University Press, 1999) as well as numerous articles on early Christian liturgical and social history. He is a priest of the Anglican Church of Australia.
A. Dean McKenzie (“Lions, Lilies”) is professor emeritus of art history at the University of Oregon, Eugene. A specialist in medieval Byzantine and Russian art, he is the author of Sacred Images and the Millennium: Christianity and Russia (A.D. 988–1988) (D. & F. Scott, 1989).
Music-maven William H.C. Propp (“A Scholar Rips Handel’s Messiah”) is principal bassoonist of the North Coast Symphony Orchestra of Southern California and conductor of the La Jolla Renaissance Singers. His day job, which his mother implores him not to quit, is as professor of ancient Near Eastern history and languages at the University of California, San Diego.
Yochanan Muffs (“Agent of the Lord”) is Meyer and Fannie Rapaport Professor of Philosophies of Religion at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. He is the author of Love and Joy: Law, Language and Religion in Ancient Israel (Belknap, 1995) and Studies in the Aramaic Legal Papyri from Elephantine (Brill, 2002). David R. Cartlidge (“How Can This Be?”) is Ralph W. Beeson Professor Emeritus of Religion at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee. His specialty is early Christian apocrypha and their impact on church art. He selected and described illustrations for Ronald F. Hock’s “The Favored […]
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