Authors

Michael Homan (“Happy Birthday, BR!”) is assistant professor of theology at Xavier University of Louisiana. He is the author of To Your Tents, O Israel (Brill, 2002) and co-author (with Jeffrey Geoghegan) of The Bible for Dummies (Wiley, 2003).

Sister Wendy Beckett (“Sister Wendy’s Top 20 Biblical Paintings”) has hosted popular TV series including Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting and has written numerous books on art. A Consecrated Virgin living in isolation on the grounds of a Carmelite monastery in Norfolk, U.K., her contemplative vows allow her only two hours of work or writing each day.

Victor Hurowitz (“The Genesis of Genesis”) is professor of Bible and ancient Near Eastern studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beer-Sheva. He has published widely on Assyriology and Mesopotamian religion, including the book I Have Built You an Exalted House (Sheffield, 1992), and is preparing a commentary on Proverbs.