Authors

Cliff Edwards (“Van Gogh’s Bible”) further explored van Gogh’s religious imagery in Van Gogh and God: A Spiritual Quest (Loyola Univ. Press, 1989). A professor of philosophy and religion at Virginia Commonwealth University, Edwards also wrote Christian Being and Doing, a commentary on the New Testament, and Issa: the Story of a Poet-Priest, a study of a Japanese nature-mystic.

Karel van der Toorn (“Did Ecclesiastes Copy Gilgamesh?”) was recently named professor of ancient religions and dean of the faculty of humanities at the University of Amsterdam. An expert in ancient Near Eastern religions, he edited The Image and the Book (Peeters, 1997) and the comprehensive Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, now in its second edition (Brill, 1999).