Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Bard College, received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University (St. John's College, 1976). He wrote the first critical translation of the Aramaic version of Isaiah with commentary (The Isaiah Targum, 1987), as well as analyses of Jesus in his Judaic context (A Galilean Rabbi and His Bible, 1984; The Temple of Jesus, 1992; Pure Kingdom, 1996; Rabbi Jesus, 2000). Recent work includes Resurrection Logic: How Jesus’ First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the Dead (2019), The Herods. Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession (2021), Synoptikon. Streams of Tradition in Mark, Matthew, and Luke (2023), and Aramaic Jesus: Tradition, Identity, and Christianity’s Mother Tongue.Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Massachusetts). He is a co-author of A Comparative Handbook to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke: Comparisons with Pseudepigraph, the Qumran Scrolls, and Rabbinic Literature (Brill, 2021) and is co-editor and author of The Encyclopaedia of Judaism (Brill, 2005) and The Blackwell Companion to Judaism (2000). His commentary on 2 Corinthians appears in The Jewish Annotated New Testament (Oxford, 2011), and he is a member of the translation team of Readings from the Roots: A New Historically Sensitive Translation of the Revised Common Lectionary (https://readingsfromtheroots.bard.edu).Darrell L. Bock is an American evangelical New Testament scholar. He is executive director of Cultural Engagement at The Hendricks Center and Senior Research Professor of New Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas, United States. Bock received his PhD from Scotland's University of Aberdeen. Craig A. Evans is Distinguished Research Professor at the Bible Seminary and the John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins Emeritus at Houston Christian University. He is an expert on the historical grounds of New Testament writings. Dr. Evans has published more than 600 scholarly studies, including more than 70 books. His book, “Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels”, is a best-seller.Daniel M. Gurtner (PhD, University of St Andrews) is Professor of New Testament at Gateway Seminary, USA. He has published a number of works on the Gospels and Second Temple Judaism, including the award-winning T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism (ed., with Loren T. Stuckenbruck, T&T Clark, 2019).
