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Robin Gallaher Branch (“David and Joab”) was a Fulbright Scholar for the 2002–2003 academic year at Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, in South Africa, and has just been made an associate professor in that university’s faculty of theology. Previously she taught at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Jan Willem Drijvers (“The True Cross”) is a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands. He has written on several fourth-century figures including Helena and Amiannus Marcellinus, and is currently writing a book on Bishop Cyril of Jerusalem.

Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard University, Shaye J.D. Cohen (“Did Ancient Jews Missionize?”) has published widely on Jewish identity and history and is the author of The Beginnings of Jewishness (California, 1999). His current research centers on the meanings of circumcision in Judaism.

Bernhard Lang (“Why God Has So Many Names”) teaches Old Testament and religious studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and teaches Catholic theology at the University of Paderborn, Germany. His most recent book is The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity (Yale, 2002).

Robin Gallaher Branch (“David and Joab”) was a Fulbright Scholar for the 2002–2003 academic year at Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, in South Africa, and has just been made an associate professor in that university’s faculty of theology. Previously she taught at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Jan Willem Drijvers (“The True Cross”) is a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands. He has written on several fourth-century figures including Helena and Amiannus Marcellinus, and is currently writing a book on Bishop Cyril of Jerusalem. Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy […]