Florentino García Martínez, a pre-eminent specialist of Qumran Studies, is Professor at the Universities of Groningen and Leuven. He is a member of the International Team of Editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls and editorial secretary of the Revue de Qumran and the Journal for the Study of Judaism. García Martínez has written numerous books and articles on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar, (Ph.D. 1994, University of Groningen, the Netherlands) is Professor at the Department of Religion, Florida State University. He is secretary of the Journal for the Study of Judaism, associate editor of the Brill series Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, and executive secretary of the International Organization for Qumran Studies.

the readership of the STDJ, and scholars working on Second Temple Judaism