Dictionary of New Testament Background (The IVP Bible Dictionary Series)
Craig A. Evans (Ph.D., Claremont) is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament and director of the graduate program at Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He has written extensively on the historical Jesus and the Jewish background of the New Testament era.  His books includeJesus and His Contemporaries: Comparative Studies(1995),Mark(in the Word Biblical Commentary, 2001),Jesus and the Ossuaries(2003) andAncient Texts for New Testament Studies(2005). His edited volumes include (with Bruce Chilton)Studying the Historical Jesus: Evaluations of the State of Current Research(1994), (with Stanley E. Porter)Dictionary of New Testament Background(2000) and (with John Collins)Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls(2006). He has recently served on the advisory board on theGospel of Judasfor National Geographic Society and has appeared frequently as an expert commentator on network television programs, such asDateline,and in various documentaries on the BBC, the Discovery Channel and the History Channel.Stanley E. Porter (Ph.D., University of Sheffield) is president, dean and professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario. At McMaster he also holds the Roy A. Hope Chair in Christian Worldview. He is the author of numerous studies in the New Testament and Greek language, includingThe Paul of Acts: Essays in Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, and Theology;  Idioms of the Greek New TestamentandVerbal Aspect in the Greek of the New Testament, with Reference to Tense and Mood.He has also edited volumes such asHistory of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, 330 B.C.-A.D. 400andHandbook to Exegesis of the New Testament.