Authors

Author of BR’s Bible in the News column, Leonard J. Greenspoon (“How the Bible Became English”) holds the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University, in Omaha. He wrote Max Leopold Margolis: A Scholar’s Scholar (Scholars, 1987) and has recently edited several collections of essays on contemporary approaches to the Bible.

Robin M. Jensen (“How Pilate Became a Saint”) was recently named the Luce Chancellor’s Professor of the History of Christian Worship and Art at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Her first book, Understanding Early Christian Art was published by Routledge in 2000; she is currently preparing a book on the earliest portraits of Jesus.

BR’s contributing editor Stephen J. Patterson (“The Dark Side of Pilate”) is professor of New Testament at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis. A specialist in the historical Jesus, Christian origins and the Gospel of Thomas, Patterson wrote, The God of Jesus: The Historical Jesus and the Search for God (Trinity, 1998).