Acknowledgments
A number of individuals have contributed to this volume, and I gratefully acknowledge their contributions. Professor Eugene Ulrich, Dr. Jason Driesbach, and Richard W. Medina have reviewed all or portions of the manuscript and have provided me with a number of productive suggestions—I appreciate their professionalism, expertise, and text-critical skills! Additionally, I appreciate two blind peer reviewers—both have enriched my manuscript with their significant, constructive comments. I thank the WordCruncher team (www.wordcruncher.com), especially Dr. Monte Shelley and Jesse Vincent, for converting my Hebrew and Greek fonts to Unicode, and for helping me find and fix additional errors.
I also express gratitude to Brigham Young University editors Scarlett Lindsay and Kim Sandoval who carefully edited the manuscript (standardizing the style, punctuation, grammar, etc.) and provided the manuscript with several improvements. And I thank Michael Goodman and Diana Willerth, who source-checked more than one thousand footnotes and hundreds of scriptural citations. Lastly, I appreciate the Brill team—Suzanne Mekking, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Liesbeth Hugenholtz, Editor, and Ester Lels, production editor—all of whom have exerted various masterful skills as they helped to advance the manuscript through its final stages. Notwithstanding those who have provided improvements to this manuscript, I am solely responsible for errors and inconsistencies.