Authors

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.