Authors

Simo Parpola (“The Magi and the Star”) is professor of Assyriology and director of the State Archives of Assyria Centre of Excellence at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and published numerous books and articles on a wide range of topics, including Mesopotamian science and astrology, Assyrian history, royal ideology and religion and ancient Near Eastern geography. Parpola explored the Mesopotamian roots of Jewish and Christian traditions in “Sons of God,” AO 02:05.

Author of Understanding Early Christian Art (Routledge, 2000), Robin M. Jensen (“Witnessing the Divine”) is associate professor of the history of Christianity at Andover Newton Theological School, in Massachusetts. Named a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 2001–2002, Jensen is currently writing Living Water: The Symbolism of Early Christian Baptism (Hendrickson).

Dieter Georgi (“Was the Early Church Jewish?”) is professor of New Testament at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in his hometown, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He has taught periodically at Harvard Divinity School and is the author of several books on Paul, including The Opponents of Paul in Second Corinthians (Fortress, 1986) and Remembering the Poor (Abingdon, 1992).