Contributors
Amy L. Balogh (PhD, University of Denver & Iliff School of Theology) is Lead Lecturer of Religious Studies for the Department of Liberal Arts at Regis University College of Contemporary Liberal Studies. She is the author of Moses among the Idols: Mediators of the Divine in the Ancient Near East (Lexington/Fortress, 2018) and essays including “The Mesopotamian Mis Pi Ceremony & Clifford Geertz’s ‘Thick Description’: Principles for Studying the Cultural Webs of the Deceased,” DWJ 4 (2019), “Negotiating Moses’ Divine-Human Identity in LXX Exodus,” JSCS 52 (2019), and “Reading Ritual with Rappaport: The Mesopotamian Mis Pi Ceremony in Ecological Perspective,” in Antropologia religiosa della Mesopotamia, eds. Claus Ambos and Gioele Zisa, Anthropologia religiosa (Palmero: Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2020).
James H. Charlesworth (PhD, Duke University) is George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. He specializes in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old and New Testaments, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus, Jesus research, and the Gospel of John.
Charles L. Echols (PhD, University of Cambridge) is Adjunct Professor at the College of Theology, South University, Columbia, SC. Charles is the author of books and essays including “Tell Me, O Muse”: The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) in the Light of Heroic Poetry, LHBOTS 487 (New York: T&T Clark, 2008) and “Can the Samson Narrative Properly Be Called Heroic?” in Leshon Limmudim: Essays on the Language and Literature of the Hebrew Bible in Honour of A.A. Macintosh, ed. David A. Baer and Robert P. Gordon, LHBOTS 593 (New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2013). His research areas include ancient Near Eastern heroic poetry and literature, literary criticism of the Hebrew Bible, and the use of the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament.
Mark Edwards (DPhil, University of Oxford) is University Lecturer in Patristics, and Tutor in Theology, Christ Church, University of Oxford. Since 2014 he has also been Professor of early Christian Studies. He is the author of numerous books and publications, including Origen against Plato (2002), John Through the Centuries (Blackwell, 2003), Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church (2009), Image, Word and God in the Early Christian Centuries (Routledge, 2012) and Religions of the Constantinian Empire (2015).
Douglas Estes (PhD, University of Nottingham) is Associate Professor of New Testament and Practical Theology at South University. Douglas has written or edited nine books; his most recent books are a Greek grammar resource, Questions and Rhetoric in the Greek New Testament (Zondervan, 2017), and an edited volume (with Ruth Sheridan) on narrative dynamics in John’s Gospel, How John Works: Storytelling in the Fourth Gospel (SBL Press, 2016). He is the editor of Didaktikos: Journal of Theological Education (Lexham Press).
Christopher Heard (PhD, Southern Methodist University) is Professor of Religion at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Trained chiefly in literary-aesthetic studies of the Hebrew Bible, Chris has more recently focused on the reception history of Genesis, especially in late modern and postmodern popular culture. He is the author of numerous articles and essays, as well as Dynamics of Diselection: Ambiguity in Genesis 12–36 and Ethnic Boundaries in Post-Exilic Judah (SBL, 2001).
Dustyn Elizabeth Keepers (PhD cand., Wheaton College Graduate School) is a PhD student and ordained minister in the Reformed Church of America. She received an MDiv from Western Theological Seminary (WTS) in Holland, MI, and is currently editing a festschrift in honor of Tom Boogaart, Professor of Old Testament at WTS. Her current research focuses on John Calvin, ecclesiology, and feminist theology.
Ty Kieser (PhD cand., Wheaton College Graduate School) is a doctoral student and adjunct instructor at Wheaton College. He has an MDiv and MA in Systematic Theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has published reviews in International Journal of Systematic Theology, Trinity Journal, and Nova et Vetera and an article in Journal of Reformed Theology. His current research focuses on divine and human christological action in the Reformed tradition.
Peter T. Lanfer (PhD, UCLA) is a Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA. He received his doctorate in Hebrew Bible and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures under William Schniedewind at UCLA, and his Masters in Second Temple Judaism with John Collins at Yale Divinity School. His first book Remembering Eden: The Reception History of Genesis 3:22–4 was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. He is presently working on a monograph about the reception history of ethically and morally problematic passages in the Hebrew Bible called Reading Sacredness into the Badly Behaving Bible.
Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (PhD, University of Cambridge) is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, having taught New Testament there for 11 years. Since her PhD on Jewish Worship in Philo of Alexandria she has published numerous articles on Philo. Her other research interests include evil in the New Testament and Second Temple Judaism, particularly the Gospel of John and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
G. Ronald Murphy, S.J. (PhD, Harvard University) is George M. Roth Distinguished Professor of German at Georgetown University. He is the author or editor numerous books including The Heiland: The Saxon Gospel (translation and commentary) (Oxford University Press, 1992) and Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North (Oxford University Press, 2013).
William R. Osborne (PhD, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at College of the Ozarks. He co-edited Riddles and Revelations: Explorations into the Relationship between Wisdom and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible (T&T Clark, 2018) and recently wrote Trees and Kings: A Comparative Analysis of Tree Imagery in Israel’s Prophetic Tradition and the Ancient Near East (Eisenbrauns, 2018). He has also published articles and reviews in a number of journals. At present, he is working on a biblical theology of divine blessing.
Ken M. Penner (PhD, McMaster University) is Associate Professor in the Religious Studies department of St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. He studied Biblical Languages at Regent College (Vancouver) and Religious Studies (Early Judaism and Early Christianity) at McMaster University under Eileen Schuller. His doctoral research, The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls was published by Brill in 2015. Always fascinated by the intersection of computers and biblical studies, he is co-director of the Online Critical Pseudepigrapha site. He is now completing a commentary on the Greek text of Isaiah for Brill’s Septuagint Commentary Series.
Pippa Salonius (PhD, University of Warwick) is an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Department of History within the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Pippa co-edited The Tree: Symbol, Allegory, and Mnemonic Device in Medieval Art and Thought (Brepols, 2014) and contributed to the volume Cristo e il potere: teologia, antropologia e politica (SISMEL, 2017). She has published a number of essays in edited volumes and her articles “Embodying the Medieval City: Personification and Gender in Sculpted Programmes on Cathedrals in Central Italy” in the Journal of Religious History and “The Medieval World of Wearable Art: Frames, Lineage, Nature, and the Law” (Officina di Studi Medievali) are forthcoming. She is currently co-editing a book on The Surrounding Forest: Trees in the Imaginary at the Time of the European Middle Ages (Boydell & Brewer).
Carl B. Smith II (PhD, Miami University) is former Professor of Theology and Chair of the College of Theology at South University. His publications include a book, No Longer Jews: The Search for Gnostic Origins (Hendrickson, 2004), and chapter contributions to a number of edited volumes. His research areas are historical, theological, and practical developments in earliest Christianity, particularly those related to Gnostic origins and the letters of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch.
Beth M. Stovell (PhD, McMaster Divinity College) is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Chair of General Theological Studies at Ambrose Seminary of Ambrose University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Beth has authored Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel: John’s Eternal King (Brill), edited Making Sense of Motherhood: Biblical and Theological Perspectives (Wipf and Stock), and co-edited Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views (InterVarsity Press) with Stanley E. Porter. She has contributed articles to several edited volumes and academic journals. Beth is currently writing a two-volume commentary on the Minor Prophets (Story of God Bible Commentary, Zondervan), a commentary on Ezekiel (Baker Commentary on the Old Testament: Prophetic Books, Baker), and a book on Johannine Theology (Baker).
Daniel J. Treier (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is Knoedler Professor of Theology at Wheaton College Graduate School. He has authored five books, including Virtue and the Voice of God: Toward Theology as Wisdom as well as a theological commentary on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. He has coedited another ten books, including the Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology.