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Iain Provan

**Iain William Provan** is a Bristish Old Testament scholar and Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College.

## Known work

* *A Biblical History of Israel*
* *Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs* (The NIV Application Commentary)
* *1 & 2 Kings* (Understanding the Bible Commentary Series)
* *Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why It Matters*
* *A Biblical History of Israel* - authored alongside Tremper Longman & V. Philips Long
* *Discovering Genesis: Content, Interpretation, Reception*
* *The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture*
Jeffrey Cooley

**Jeffrey L. Cooley** is an associate professor of Old Testament at Boston College.

## Known work

* *Inana and Sukaletuda: a Sumerian Astral Myth*
* *“I want to dim the brilliance of Šulpae!” Mesopotamian celestial divination and the poem of Erra and Išum*
* *Early Mesopotamian Astral Science and Divination in the Myth of Inana and Šukaletuda*
* *Reading Akkadian prayers and hymns: an introduction* - with Alan Lenzi, Tzvi Abusch, Christopher Frechette, Kyle Greenwood, Charles Halton, Duane Smith, Jeffrey Stackert and Anna Elise Zernecke
* *The story of Saul's election (1 Samuel 9-10) in the light of mantic practice in ancient Iraq*
* *Celestial Divination in Ugarit and Ancient Israel: A Reassessment*
* *Poetic astronomy in the ancient Near East*
* *Poetic Astronomy in the Ancient Near East: The Reflexes of Celestial Science in Ancient Mesopotamian*
* *Poetic astronomy in the ancient Near East: the reflexes of celestial science in ancient Mesopotamian, Ugaritic, and Israelite narrative*
* *Propaganda, Prognostication, and Planets*
* *The Book of Giants and the Greek Gilgamesh*
* *Psalm 19: A Sabbath Song*
* *Celestial Divination in Esarhaddon's Aššur A Inscription*
* *Creation and Divination in Isaiah 2:1-4*
* *Judean Scribalism, Documentary Epistemology, and the Name ישׂראל‎*
* *Epistemology in the Biblical Tradition - Judean Knowledge-Building, Scribal Craftsmanship, and Scribal Culture*
* *Judean Onomastic Hermeneutics in Context*
* *Divinatory Process in Judah: Mantic Marginalia and the Growth of Isaiah 7,10-17*
* *Exegeting Enoch: Re-inscribing a Mesopotamian Figure in the Yahwist Narrative*
Jürg Hutzli

**Jürg Hutzli** is an Old Testament scholar at the University of Lausanne.

## Known work

* *Überlegungen zum Motiv der Ansammlung der Wasser unterhalb des Himmels an einem Ort (Gen 1, 9)*
* *Die Erzählung von Hanna und Samuel: textkritische und literarische Analyse von 1. Samuel 1-2 unter Berücksichtigung des Kontextes*
* *Tradition and Interpretation in Gen 1: 1–2: 4a*
* *The Literary Relationship between I–II Samuel and I–II Kings. Considerations Concerning the Formation of the Two Books*
Martin Peilstöcker

**Martin Peilstöcker** is a lecturer of Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

## Known work

* *Egyptians in Jaffa: A portrait of Egyptian presence in Jaffa during the Late Bronze Age* - with Aaron A. Burke, Krystal V. Lords, Kyle H. Keimer and George A. Pierce
* *Excavations of the New Kingdom fortress in Jaffa, 2011–2014: traces of resistance to Egyptian rule in Canaan* - with Aaron A. Burke, Amy Karoll, George A. Pierce, Krister Kowalski, Nadia Ben- Marzouk, Jacob C. Damm, Andrew J. Danielson, Heidi D. Fessler, Brett Kaufman, Krystal V. Pierce, Felix Höflmayer, Brian N. Damiata, and Michael Dee
Itzhak Amar

**Itzhak Amar** is a Senior Lecturer of Biblical Studies at Bar-Ilan University.

## Known work

* *Chaotic Writing as a Literary Element in the Story of Ahaz in 2 Chronicles 28*
* *The Twofold Literary Structure of the Chronistic David Narrative (1 Chr 11-29)*
* *The Characterization of Rehoboam and Jeroboam as a Reflection of the Chronicler's View of the Schism*
* *Form and Content in the Story of Asa in 2 Chr 13: 23b-16: 14: A Diachronic-Synchronic Reading*
* *Expansion and exile in the Chronicler’s narrative of the two and a half tribes (1 Chr. 5.1-26)*
Kamran Karimullah

**Kamran Karimullah** is a lecturer in ancient and medieval Islamic thought, philosophy and medicine at the University of Manchester.

## Known work

* *Influence of Late-Antique (ca. 200-800 A.D.) Prolegomena to Aristotle’s Categories on Arabic Doctrines of the Subject Matter of Logic: Alfarabi (d. 950 A.D.), Baghdad Peripatetics, Avicenna (d. 1037 A.D.)*
* *Sketching women: A corpus-based approach to representations of women’s agency in political internet corpora in Arabic and English*
* *Islamic Law, Medicine and Public Health, 800-1800*
Lorenzo Verderame

**Lorenzo Verderame** is professor of Assyriology at Sapienza University of Rome.

## Known work

* *Enuma Anu Enlil tablet 1-13*
* *In the path of the moon: Babylonian celestial divination and its legacy*
* *Means of substitution: the use of figurines, animals, and human beings as substitutes in assyrian rituals*
* *Neo-Assyrian Statues of Gods and Kings in Context*
Jerome Creach

**Jerome F.D. Creach** is the Robert C. Holland Professor of Old Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary faculty.

## Known work

* *Joshua: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching*
* *Violence in Scripture: Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church*
* *Six Themes in Psalms Everyone Should Know*
* *Discovering Psalms: Content, Interpretation, Reception*
* *Reading Psalms: A Literary and Theological Commentary*
Martin Rösel

**Martin Rösel** is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Rostock.

## Known work

* *Israels Psalmen in Ägypten? Papyrus Amherst 63 und die Psalmen xx und lxxv*
* *The septuagint-version of the book of Joshua*
* *Towards a “Theology of the Septuagint”*
* *The reading and translation of the divine name in the Masoretic tradition and the Greek Pentateuch*
* *Toward a theology of the Septuagint: Stellenbosch congress on the Septuagint, 2018*
Martina Böhm

**Martina Böhm** is a German New Testament scholar at the University of Hamburg.

## Known work

* *Samarien und die Samaritai bei Lukas: Eine Studie zum religionshistorischen und traditionsgeschichtlichen Hintergrund der lukanischen Samarientexte und zu deren topographischer Verhaftung*
* *Abraham und die Erzväter bei Philo: Überlegungen zur Exegese und Hermeneutik im frühen Judentum*
* *Rezeption und Funktion der Vätererzählungen bei Philo von Alexandria: Zum Zusammenhang von Kontext, Hermeneutik und Exegese im frühen Judentum*
* *Samaritans in the New Testament*
Michael Jursa

**Michael Jursa** is Professor of Assyriology at Vienna University.

## Known work

* *Neo-Babylonian legal and administrative documents: typology, contents and archives (GMTR 1)*
* *Agricultural management, tax farming and banking: aspects of entrepreneurial activity in Babylonia in the Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Periods*
* *The Transition of Babylonia from the Neo-Babylonian Empire to Achaemenid Rule*
* *Aspects of the economic history of Babylonia in the first millennium BC*
Matthew Godshall

**Matthew Godshall** is an adjunct professor of New Testament at Western Seminary and Associate Dean in the School of Theology & Leadership at Jessup University.

## Known work

* *The Messiah and the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit: The Christological Significance of Jesus' Role as the Giver of the Spirit in Luke-Acts*
Joachim Krause

**Joachim J. Krause** is the Heisenberg Professor for the History of Old Testament Literature in the Protestant Theological Faculty at the Ruhr University Bochum.

## Known work

* *Tradition, history, and our story: some observations on Jacob and Esau in the books of Obadiah and Malachi*
* *Komposition und Theologie von Josua 1–5*
Matthew Thiessen

**Matthew Thiessen** is a New Testament scholar and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University.

## Known work

* *Paul and the Gentile Problem*
* *The So-Called Jew in Paul's Letter to the Romans* - with Rafael Rodríguez
* *Jesus and the forces of death: the gospels' portrayal of ritual impurity within first-century Judaism*
Johannes Diehl

**Johannes F. Diehl** is the Academic Council on Old Testament and Northwest Semitic Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.

## Known work

* *Von der Grammatik zum Kerygma. Neue grammatische Erkenntnisse und ihre Bedeutung für das Verständnis der Form und des Gehalts von Psalm XXIX* - with Anja Diesel and Andreas Wagner
* *Hebräisches und aramäisches Wörterbuch zum Alten Testament* - with Markus Witte
Iosif Zhakevich

**Iosif J. Zhakevich** is an Associate Professor of Old Testament at the Master's Seminary.

## Known work

* *Converse Translation in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Genesis 19.33: Did Lot Really Not Know That His Older Daughter Lay with Him?*
* *A Targumist Interprets the Torah: Contradictions and Coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan*
Jamie Novotny

**Jamie Novotny** is an assyriologist at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

## Known work

* *The Standard Babylonian Etana Epic*
* *Ehulhul, Egipar, Emelamana, and Sin’s Akitu-House: A Study of Assyrian Building Activities at Harran* - PhD-Thesis
* *The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC), Part 1* - with A. Kirk Grayson
* *From the Foundations to the Crenellations* - Mark Boda
* *Selected Royal Inscriptions of Assurbanipal*
* *The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 1* - with Joshua Jeffers
* *The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 2* -with Joshua Jeffers
Itamar Kislev

**Itamar Kislev** is an Associate Professor of Old Testament in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa.

## Known work

* *The Investiture of Joshua (Numbers 27: 12-23) and the Dispute on the Form of the Leadership in Yehud*
* *The Census of the Israelites on the Plains of Moab (Numbers 26): Sources and Redaction*
* *The Core of the Sacrificial Calendar in Num 28–29 and Its Compositional History*
Louise Pryke

**Louise M. Pryke** is an Honorary Associate and Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney.

## Known work

* *The many complaints to Pharaoh of Rib-Addi of Byblos*
* *The Bull of Heaven: animality and astronomy in Tablet VI of the Gilgamesh Epic*
* *The Influence of Gilgamesh on the Bible*
Jesper Høgenhaven

**Jesper Høgenhaven** is a Professor of Old Testament Exegesis at the University of Copenhagen.

## Known work

* *On the Structure and Meaning of Isaiah viii 23b*
* *The opening of the psalter: A study in Jewish Theology*
* *Rhetorical Devices in 4QMMT*
* *he Literary Character of 4QTanhumim*
* *The Cave 3 Copper Scroll: A Symbolic Journey*
Laurie Pearce

**Laurie E. Pearce** is the Lecturer in Akkadian in the Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Department at the University California, Berkeley.

## Known work

* *New evidence for Judeans in Babylonia*
* *Documents of Judean exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the collection of David Sofer* - with Cornelia Wunsch
* *Identifying Judeans and Judean identity in the Babylonian evidence*
Ian Young

**Ian Young** is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, where he teaches Classical Hebrew and Biblical Studies.

## Known work

* *Biblical Hebrew: studies in chronology and typology*
* *Is the Prose Tale of Job in Late Biblical Hebrew?*
* *Diversity in pre-exilic Hebrew*
* *Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew: Steps Toward an Integrated Approach Y*
* *Ancient Hebrew without authors 2016*
Lester Grabbe

**Lester L. Grabbe** is the retired Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull.

## Known work

* *A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period (vol. 1): The Persian Period (539-331BCE)*
* *An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism: History and Religion of the Jews in the Time of Nehemiah, the Maccabees, Hillel, and Jesus*
* *Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?*
* *A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 3: The Maccabaean Revolt, Hasmonaean Rule, and Herod the Great (175-4 BCE)*
* *The Dawn of Israel: A History of Canaan in the Second Millennium BCE*
Martin Baasten

**Martin Baasten** is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

## Known work

* *Nominal Clauses Containing a Personal Pronoun in Qumran Hebrew*
* *Nominal clauses with locative and possessive predicates in Qumran Hebrew*
* *Existential Clauses in Qumran Hebrew*
* *The non-verbal clause in Qumran Hebrew*
* *First Things First: The Syntax of Gen 1: 1–3 Revisited*
Loren Stuckenbruck

**Loren T. Stuckenbruck** is a Professor of New Testament and Dead Sea Scrolls at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

## Known work

* *Angel Veneration and Christology: A Study in Early Judaism and in the Christology of the Apocalypse of John*
* *1 Enoch 91-108*
* *The Book of Tobit: Texts from the Principal Ancient and Medieval Traditions. With Synopsis, Concordances, and Annotated Texts in Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Syriac*
* *The Myth of Rebellious Angels: Studies in Second Temple Judaism and New Testament Texts*
* *The Book of Giants from Qumran: Texts, Translation, and Commentary*
Ina Berg

**Ina Berg** is a Lecturer in Archeology at the University of Manchester, who has an interest in the Cyclades in the Middle and Late Bronze Age

## Known work

* *The Pots at Phylakopi: Applying Statistical Techniques to Archaeology*
* *Negotiating Island Identities: Ceramic Production in the Cyclades during the Middle and Late Bronze Age*
* *The Meanings of Standardization: Conical Cups in the Late Bronze Age Aegean*
* *Negotiating Island Identities: the Active Use of Pottery in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Cyclades*
* *Breaking the Mould: Challenging the Past through Pottery: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Prehistoric Ceramics*
* *X-radiography of Knossian Bronze age Vessels: Assessing our knowledge of primary forming techniques*
* *Exploring the Chaîne Opératoire of Ceramics through X-radiography*
* *The attraction of islands: Travellers and tourists in the Cyclades (Greece) in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries*
* *Island Attractions? Travel writing on the Cyclades (Greece) from the Middle Ages until modern day.*
* *Marine Creatures and the Sea in Bronze Age Greece: Ambiguities of Meaning*
* *Potting skill and learning networks in Bronze Age Crete*
* *Between throwing and coiling: the social significance of wheel-coiling in Bronze Age Crete*
* *The Uluburun shipwreck*
* *Conflict and crisis in prehistoric societies: the potential of pottery*
* *The Cycladic and Aegean islands in prehistory*
* *The Transformational Power of the Sea: Copper Production in Early Bronze Age Greece*
* *The relationship between inclusion/void orientation and speed in wheel-thrown pots*
Mark Chavalas

**Mark W. Chavalas** is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, who specialises in the Old Testament and Ancient Mesopotamia.

## Known work

* *Mesopotamia and the Bible*
* *The age of empires, 3100–900 bcE*
* *The IVP bible background commentary: Old Testament* - with John Walton and Victor Matthews
Kenneth Ngwa

**Kenneth N. Ngwa** is an associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Drew University Theological School.

## Known work

* *The hermeneutics of the'happy'ending in Job 42: 7-17* - PhD-Thesis
* *What do People Say the Bible Says? And You, What do You Say?*
* *Did Job Suffer for Nothing? The Ethics of Piety, Presumption and the Reception of Disaster in the Prologue of Job*
* *Using Bible Commentaries in the Classroom*
* *The Making of Gershom’s Story: A Cameroonian Postwar Hermeneutics Reading of Exodus 2*
Ian Wilson

**Ian Douglas Wilson** is an Old Testament scholar who as an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, Augustana Campus.

## Known work

* *Judean Pillar Figurines and Ethnic Identity in the Shadow of Assyria*
* *The Song of the Sea and Isaiah: Exodus 15 in Post-monarchic Prophetic Discourse*
* *Joseph, Jehoiachin, and Cyrus: On Book Endings, Exoduses and Exiles, and Yehudite/Judean Social Remembering*
* *Yahweh’s Anointed: Cyrus, Deuteronomy’s Law of the King, and Yehudite Identity*
* *Chronicles and Utopia: Likely Bedfellows?*
* *Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire*
* *Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah*
* *History and the Hebrew Bible: Culture, Narrative, and Memory*
Markus Öhler

**Markus Öhler** is the Professor for New Testament Studies at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Vienna.

## Known work

* *Die Verklärung (Mk 9: 1-8): Die Ankunft der Herrschaft Gottes auf der Erde*
* *Elia im Neuen Testament: Untersuchungen zur Bedeutung des alttestamentlichen Propheten im frühen Christentum*
* *The Expectation of Elijah and the Presence of the Kingdom of God*
* *Die Jerusalemer Urgemeinde im Spiegel des antiken Vereinswesens*
Megan Lewis

**Megan Hollie Caroline Lewis** is a British Assyriologist, who holds a B.A. in Ancient History and M.Phil. in Assyriology from Birmingham University. She co-runs Digital Hammurabi-website, YouTube-channel and podcast with her husband Joshua Bowen.

## Digital Hammurabi

* Digital Hammurabi (Official website)
* Digital Hammurabi (YouTube)
Jeremy Smoak

**Jeremy Smoak** is Senior Lecturer of Hebrew Bible in Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at University of California, Los Angeles.

## Known work

* *Building Houses and Planting Vineyards: The Inner-biblical Discourse of an Ancient Israelite Wartime Curse*
* *Assyrian siege warfare imagery and the background of a biblical curse*
* *Building houses and planting vineyards: The early inner-biblical discourse on an ancient Israelite wartime curse*
* *Amuletic Inscriptions and the Background of YHWH as Guardian and Protector in Psalm 12*
* *‘Prayers of Petition’ in the Psalms and West Semitic Inscribed Amulets: Efficacious Words in Metal and Prayers for Protection in Biblical Literature*
* *May YHWH Bless You and Keep You from Evil: The Rhetorical Argument of Ketef Hinnom Amulet I and the Form of the Prayers for Deliverance in the Psalms*
* *The Priestly Blessing in Inscription and Scripture: The Early History of Numbers 6: 24-26*
* *Reconsidering the Function of Tomb Inscriptions in Iron Age Judah: Khirbet Beit Lei as a Test Case* - with Alice Mandell
* *From Temple to Text: Text as Ritual Space and the Composition of Numbers 6: 24–26*
* *Reading and Writing in the Dark at Khirbet el-Qom: The Literacies of Ancient Subterranean Judah* - with Alice Mandell
* *Inscribing temple space: the Ekron dedication as monumental text*
* *Reading Beyond Literacy, Writing Beyond Epigraphy: Multimodality and the Monumental Inscriptions at Ekron and Tel Dan* - with Alice Mandell
* *The material turn in the study of Israelite religions: spaces, things, and the body* - with Alice Mandell
Jeffrey Blakely

**Jeffrey A. Blakely** is an Adjunct Professor of Biblical Archaeology at the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at University of Wisconsin–Madison.

## Known work

* *Tell el-Hesi: The Persian Period (Stratum V)* - with Lawrence Toombs and W. J. Bennett
* *Ceramics and commerce: amphorae from Caesarea Maritima*
* *Southwestern Judah in the late eighth century BCE* - with James Hardin
* *Biblical geography in southwestern Judah* - with James Hardin and Christopher Rollston
* *Reconciling two maps: Archaeological evidence for the kingdoms of David and Solomon*
Madhavi Nevader

**Madhavi Nevader** is a Lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew Bible at the University of St. Andrews.

## Known work

* *Creating a Deus Non Creator: Divine Sovereignty and Creation in Ezekiel*
* *Exile and Institution: Monarchy in the Books of Deuteronomy and Ezekiel*
* *At the End Returning to Questions of Beginnings: A Response to Jonathan Burnside*
* *On Reading Ezekiel by the Rivers of Babylon*
* *Picking Up the Pieces of the Little Prince: Refractions of Neo-Babylonian Kingship Ideology in Ezekiel 40–48?*
* *Son of God: Divine sonship in Jewish and Christian antiquity*
Matthew Schlimm

**Matthew R. Schlimm** is a Professor of Old Testament at University of Dubuque Theological Seminary.

## Known work

* *Different perspectives on divine pathos: An examination of hermeneutics in biblical theology*
* *From fratricide to forgiveness: The ethics of anger in Genesis*
* *From fratricide to forgiveness: The language and ethics of anger in Genesis*
* *This strange and sacred scripture: Wrestling with the Old Testament and its oddities*
Kateřina Šašková

**Kateřina Šašková** is an assistant professor at the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.

## Known work

* *Esarhaddon's accession to the Assyrian throne*
* *Shepherds of the Black-headed People: The Royal Office vis-à-vis godhead in ancient Mesopotamia* - with Lukáš Pecha and Petr Charvát
Martti Nissinen

**Martti Heikki Nissinen** is a theologian and Old Testament scholar at the University of Helsinki.

## Notable work

* *Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective*
* *Prophecy in its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Mesopotamian, Biblical, and Arabian Perspectives*
* *Sacred Marriages: The Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early Christianity*
* *Images and prophecy in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean*
* *Constructs of Prophecy in the Former and Latter Prophets and Other Texts*
* *Ancient Prophecy: Near Eastern, Greek, and Biblical Perspectives*
* *Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East*
* *Prophetic Divination: Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy*
Mika Pajunen

**Mika S. Pajunen** is a Docent and Academy Research Fellow of Biblical Studies at the University of Helsinki.

## Known work

* *Qumranic Psalm 91: A Structural Analysis*
* *The Land to the Elect and Justice for All: Reading Psalms in the Dead Sea Scrolls in Light of 4Q381*
* *Perspectives on the Existence of a Particular Authoritative Book of Psalms in the Late Second Temple Period*
* *The Book of Malachi, Manuscript 4Q76 (4QXIIa), and the Formation of the “Book of the Twelve”*
* *Functions of psalms and prayers in the late Second Temple period*
James McGrath

**James Frank McGrath** is the Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University.

## Known works

* *The Mandaean Book of John: critical edition, translation, and commentary*
* *Theology and Science Fiction*
* *The Burial of Jesus: What Does History Have To Do With Faith?*
* *The Only True God: Monotheism in Early Judaism and Christianity*
* *John’s Apologetic Christology: Legitimation and Development in Johannine Christology*
Johannes Bremer

**Johannes Bremer** is a Lecturer in Hebrew at the Old Testament Studies’ Department at the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn.

## Known work

* *Strukturbeobachtungen zur armentheologie des Psalters*
* *Trägerkreise in den Psalmen* - Frank-Lothar Hossfeld and Till Magnus Steiner
* *Zur Theologie des Psalters und der Psalmen* - Ulrich Berges and Till Magnus Steiner
Matthias Becker

Prof. Dr. **Matthias Becker** is a scholar of New Testament at the University of Heidelberg.

## Known work

* *A tenet under examination: Reflections on the Pentecostal hermeneutical approach*
* *Porphyrios," Contra Christianos": Neue Sammlung der Fragmente, Testimonien und Dubia mit Einleitung, Übersetzung und Anmerkungen*
Kathryn Slanski

**Kathryn E. Slanski** is a Senior Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University.

## Known work

* *Classification, Historiography and Monumental Authority: The Babylonian Entitlement narûs (kudurrus)*
* *The Babylonian entitlement narûs (kudurrus): a study in their form and function*
* *The Law of Hammurabi and its audiencee*
Hebrew Bible Insights

**Hebrew Bible Insights** is a YouTube-channel and Podcast run by Dr. Nathan French.

## Known guests

* Catherine McDowell
* Netanel Barak
* Lenore Mullican
* Peter Myers
* Daniel Bunn
* Jonathan Kline
* Noah Green
* Chad Bird
* Joanna Kline
* Yitzhaq Feder
* Michelle Knight
* Peter Beckman
* Jason Staples
* Edward Cook
* Kevin Grasso
* Gary Schnittjer
* Hélène Dallaire
* Iosif Zhakevich
* Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Heather Macumber

**Heather Macumber** is Associate Professor Of Biblical Studies at Providence University College and Theological Seminary.

## Known work

* *Angelic Intermediaries: The Development of a Revelatory Tradition*
* *A Monster without a Name: Creating the Beast known as Antiochus IV in Daniel 7*
* *The Threat of Empire: Monstrous Hybridity in Revelation 13*
* *Muted and Hidden Monsters in Rev 12*
Matthias Konradt

**Matthias Konradt** is professor ordinarius of New Testament at University of Heidelberg.

## Known work

* Christliche Existenz nach dem Jakobusbrief: Eine Studie zu seiner soteriologischen und ethischen Konzeption
* *Gericht und Gemeinde: eine Studie zur Bedeutung und Funktion von Gerichtsaussagen im Rahmen der paulinischen Ekklesiologie und Ethik in 1 Thess und 1 Kor*
* *Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew* - Kathleen Ess, Simon Gathercole, and Wayne Coppins
* *Das Evangelium nach Matthäus: A Revised Version*
Jonathan Robinson

**Jonathan Rivett Robinson** is a Lecturer of New Testament at Carey Baptist College.

## Known work

* *To see your face is like seeing the face of God’: Pastoral and Systemic Reflections on Forgiveness and Theosis in the Jacob Story*
* *The Argument against Slogans in 1 Cor 6:12-20*
* *Making Disciples by Performing Miracles: A Study in Mark*
* *Jonah's Gourd and Mark's Gethsemane: A Study in Allegorical Messianic Intertextuality*
* *Markan Typology: Miracle, Scripture and Christology in Mark 4: 35–6: 45*
Torsten Jantsch

**Torsten Jantsch** is a Privatdozent of New Testament in the Evangelical Theological Faculty at the LMU Munich.

## Known work

* *Gott alles in allem (1Kor 15, 28): Studien zum Gottesverständnis des Paulus im 1. Thessalonicherbrief und in der korinthischen Korrespondenz* - PhD-Thesis
* *Jesus, der Retter: die Soteriologie des lukanischen Doppelwerks* - Habilitationsschrift
* *The God of glory: Explicit references to God in discourses in the Acts of the Apostles (7: 2–53; 14: 15–18; 17: 22–31)*
* *Salvation and the Fate of Jesus in Luke-Acts*
Jacob Thiessen

**Jacob Thiessen** is the Professor of New Testament at STH Basel.

## Known work

* *Gott hat Israel nicht verstoßen: Biblisch-exegetische und theologische Perspektiven in der Verhältnisbestimmung von Israel, Judentum und Gemeinde Jesu*
* *Paulinische versus jüdische und hellenistische Anthropologie? Zur Frage nach dem Verständnis von Römer 7, 7-25*
* *Gottes Gerechtigkeit und Evangelium im Römerbrief: die Rechtfertigungslehre des Paulus im Vergleich zu antiken jüdischen Auffassungen und zur neuen Paulusperspektive*
John Collins

**John J. Collins** was the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School.

## Known work

* *Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora*
* *The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature*
* *Introduction to the Hebrew Bible*
Havilah Dharamraj

**Havilah Dharamraj** is an Old Testament scholar at South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies, Bangalore, India, serving at the head of Old Testament.

## Known work

* *A prophet like Moses? A narrative-theological reading of the Elijah narratives*
* *The Idea of the Idyll: Why it May Not Work for the Song of Songs*
* *We reap what we sow: Engaging curriculum and context in theological education*
* *Altogether Lovely: A Thematic and Intertextual Reading of the Song of Songs 2018*
Katie Marcar

**Katie Marcar** is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Biblical Languages at the University of Otago.

## Known work

* *Begotten Anew: Divine Regeneration and Identity Construction in 1 Peter*
* *The Quotations of Isaiah in 1 Peter: A Text-Critical Analysis*
* *In the Days of Noah: Urzeit/Endzeit Correspondence and the Flood Tradition in 1 Peter 3–4*
Kevin McFadden

**Kevin W. McFadde**n is an Associate Professor of New Testament Cairn University.

## Known work

* *The fulfillment of the law's dikaiōma: another look at Romans 8: 1-4*
* *Judgment According to Works in Romans: The Meaning and Function of Divine Judgment in Paul's Most Important Letter*
* *Does ΠΙΣΤΙΣ Mean 'Faith (fulness)'in Paul?*
Johannes Thon

**Johannes Thon** is a lecturer of Old Testament at the University of Halle-Wittenberg.

## Known work

* *Sprache und Identitätskonstuktion. Das literarische Interesse von Neh 13, 23–27 und die Funktion dieses Textes im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs*
* *The power of (Hebrew) language: Grammar, cabbalah, magic and the emerging Protestant identity*
* *Sprüche über das Sprechen*
Kim Ryholt

**Kim Steven Bardrum Ryholt** is a professor of Egyptology in Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

## Known work

* *The Political Situation in Egypt During the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800-1550 BC*
* *The Carlsberg Papyri 4 / The Story of Petese son of Petetum and Seventy Other Good and Bad Stories*
* *The Assyrian invasion of Egypt in Egyptian literary tradition*
* *On the contents and nature of the Tebtunis temple library: a status report*
Hanspeter Schaudig

**Hanspeter Schaudig** is an Assyriologist at the University of Heidelberg.

## Known work

* *Die Inschriften Nabonids von Babylon und Kyros’ des Grossen samt den in ihrem Umfeld entstandenen Tendenzschriften. Textausgabe und Grammatik* - PhD-Dissertation
* *Archaeology and epigraphy at Tayma (Saudi Arabia)* - with Ricardo Eichmann & Arnulf Hausleiter
* *Explaining Disaster: Tradition and Transformation of the “Catastrophe of Ibbi-Sîn” in Babylonian Literature*
* *"Bel Bows, Nabu Stoops!" The Prophecy of Isaiah xlvi 1-2 as a Reflection of Babylonian "Processional Omens"*
Kasper Siegismund

**Kasper Siegismund** is a Postdoc of Old Testament at the University of Copenhagen.

## Known work

* *Studies in the Hebrew Verbal System: Hebrew as a System of Relative Tense and the Origins and Development of the Classical Consecutive Forms* - PhD-Thesis
* *The death of a virtuous woman? Proverbs 31.10-31, gnomic qatal, and the role of translation in the analysis of the Hebrew verbal system*
Johannes Hackl

**Johannes Hackl** is an Assyriologist and University Assistant in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Jena.

## Known work

* *Prices and related data from northern Babylonia in the Late Achaemenid and Early Hellenistic periods, c. 480–300 BC* - with Reinhard Pirngruber
* *Additions to the Late Achaemenid textual record, Part I: texts from Uruk* - with Joachim Oelsner
* *The Esangila temple during the late Achaemenid period and the impact of Xerxes' reprisals on the northern Babylonian temple households*
Krzysztof Ulanowski

**Krzysztof Ulanowski** is a lecturer of Ancient Near Eastern studies at the University of Gdańsk.

## Known work

* *Divine or human creation of time? The issue of time as a factor determining the relationship of man to God*
* *God Reshef in the Mediterranean*
* *The Metaphor of the Lion in Mesopotamian and Greek Civilization*
* *A comparison of the role of Bāru and Mantis in ancient warfare*
* *The Religious Aspects of War in the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome: Ancient Warfare Series Volume 1*
Markus Saur

**Markus Saur** is Professor of Exegesis and Theology of the Old Testament at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn.

## Known work

* *Die Königspsalmen: Studien zur Entstehung und Theologie*
* *Der Tyroszyklus des Ezechielbuches*
* *Sapientia discursiva. Die alttestamentliche Weisheitsliteratur als theologischer Diskurs*
Kylie Crabbe

**Kylie Crabbe** is a Senior Research Fellow of Biblical and Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University.

## Known work

* *A Sinner and a Pharisee: Challenge at Simon's Table in Luke 7: 36–50*
* *Being found fighting against God: Luke's Gamaliel and Josephus on human responses to divine providence*
* *Accepting Prophecy: Paul's Response to Agabus with Insights from Valerius Maximus and Josephus*
* *Luke/Acts and the end of history*
Karl Kutz

**Karl V. Kutz** is Professor and Chair of Biblical Languages and Bible at Multnomah University.

## Known work

* *The Old Greek of Job: A study in early biblical exegesis* - PhD-Thesis
* *Learning Biblical Hebrew: Reading for Comprehension: An Introductory Grammar* - with Rebekah Josberger

## Trivia

* Finished his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, same as Michael Heiser or John Cook.
Ilan Peled

**Ilan Peled** is a lecturer of semitics at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

## Known work

* *Expelling the demon of effeminacy: Anniwiyani's Ritual and the question of homosexuality in Hittite thought*
* *Visualizing Masculinities: The Gala, Hegemony, and Mesopotamian Iconography*
* *Law and gender in the ancient near east and the Hebrew bible*
Ian Elmer

**Ian J. Elmer** is the Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching (Faculty of Theology and Philosophy) at Australian Catholic University.

## Known work

* *Between Jerusalem and Antioch: The advent of the gentile mission*
* *I, Tertius: Secretary or co-author of Romans*
* *Paul, Jerusalem and the Judaisers: the Galatian crisis in its broadest historical context*
* *Pillars, Hypocrites and False Brothers. Paul’s Polemic against Jerusalem in Galatians*
* *Fishing the other side: The Gentile mission in Mark's Gospel*
* *Setting the Record Straight at Galatia: Paul’s Narratio (Gal 1: 13–2: 14) as Response to the Galatian Conflict*
* *Neither male nor female: the eschatological family in Paul and Mark*
* *Reading Men and Women in the Early Christian Centuries* - Wendy Mayer
* *Men and Women in the Early Christian Centuries* - Wendy Mayer
* *The Pauline letters as community documents*
* *Paul and Mark: Comparative Essays Part A. Two Authors at the Beginnings of Christianity -* Oda Wischmeyer, David C. Sim
* *Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: The Author of Mark and the Papias Tradition*
Joost Hazenbos

**Joost Hazenbos** is a Visiting scholar at the Free University of Berlin.

## Known

* *The Hittite State Cult of the Tutelary Deities*
* *Additional Inventories of the Cult Reorganization*
* *Das geistige Erfassen der Welt im Alten Orient: Sprache, Religion, Kultur und Gesellschaft*
* *The organization of the Anatolian local cults during the Thirteenth century BC: an appraisal of the Hittite cult inventories*
John Cook

**John A. Cook** is Professor of Old Testament Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore.

## Known work

* *The Biblical Hebrew Verbal System: A Grammaticalization Approach* - PhD-Dissertation
* *Beginning Biblical Hebrew: A Grammar and Illustrated Reade*r - with Robert D. Holmstedt

## Links

* Asbury Theological Seminary
* Google Scholar
Michael Heiser

**Michael Steven Heiser** (14.2.1963– 20.2.2023) is an American Biblical scholar, who specialises in the supernatural worldview of the Bible. He also serves as the co-host for *The Naked Bible Podcast*-podcast.

## Literature

* *The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible*
* *Supernatural: What the Bible Teaches about the Unseen World And Why It Matters*
* *Demons: What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness*
* *Angels: What the Bible Really Says About God’s Heavenly Host*

## Social media

* Personal blog
* Twitter
* YouTube
Jan Dietrich

**Jan Dietrich** is Professor for the History of Literature and Religion of the Old Testament at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Bonn. He was previously Professor of Old Testament at Aarhus University in Denmark.

## Known work

* *Kollektive Schuld und Haftung. Religions- und rechtsgeschichtliche Studien zum Sündenkuhritus des Deuteronomiums und zu verwandten Texten* - PhD-Thesis
* *Individualität im Alten Testament, Alten Ägypten und Alten Orient*
* *Sozialanthropologie des Alten Testaments*
* *Der Tod von eigener Hand: Studien zum Suizid im Alten Testament, Alten Ägypten und Alten Orient* - Habilitationsschrift
William Tooman

**William Arthur Tooman** is a Senior Lecturer turned Professor in Old Testament and Hebrew Bible at the University of St. Andrews.

## Known work

* *Wisdom and Torah at Qumran: Evidence from the Sapiential Texts*
* *Covenant and Presence in the Composition and Theology of Ezekiel*
* *Edwards’ Ezekiel: The Interpretation of Ezekiel in the Blank Bible and Notes on Scripture*
* *Ezekiel's Radical Challenge to Inviolability*
* *Between Imitation and Interpretation: Reuse of Scripture and Composition in Hodayot (1QHa) 11: 6-19*
* *Ezekiel: Current Debates and Future Directions*
Martin Leuenberger

**Martin Leuenberger** is a Chair of the Old Testament with a focus on Old Testament Theology at the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen.

## Known work

* *Jhwhs Herkunft aus dem Süden. Archäologische Befunde–biblische Überlieferungen–historische Korrelationen*
* *Gott in Bewegung: Religions-und theologiegeschichtliche Beiträge zu Gottesvorstellungen im alten Israel*
* *YHWH's Provenance from the South*
Hindy Najman

**Hindy Najman** is the Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford.

## Known work

* *Seconding Sinai: The Development of Mosaic Discourse in Second Temple Judaism*
* *Past Renewals: Interpretative Authority, Renewed Revelation, and the Quest for Perfection in Jewish Antiquity*
Reinhard Pirngruber

**Reinhard Pirngruber** is a scholar of Ancient Near Eastern philology and archeology, who used to work at the University of Vienna.

## Known work

* *Prebend Prices in First-Millennium bc. Babylonia* - with Caroline Waerzeggers
* *The Historical Sections of the Astronomical Diaries in Context: Developments in A Late Babylonian Scientific Text Corpus*
* *On Courtiers in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: ša-rēši and mazzāz pān*i - with Melanie Groß
* *Prices and related data from northern Babylonia in the Late Achaemenid and Early Hellenistic periods, c. 480–300 BC* - with Johannes Hackl
* *The economy of late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia*
Wilson Cunha

**Wilson de Angelo Cunha** is Professor of Old Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary.

## Known work

* *LXX Isaiah 24: 1-26: 6 as interpretation and translation: a methodological discussion*
* *The nāḥāš in the Garden of Eden (Gen 2: 4b-3: 24): Malevolent or Benevolent?*
* *Isaiah 39 and the Motif of Human Trust in First Isaiah*
Stelian Tofană

**Stelian Tofană** is the Professor of biblical and exegetical study of the New Testament at Babeș-Bolyai University.

## Known work

* *Jesus Appeareance to the Ten Disciples and its Theological Dimension (John 20: 19-23)*
* *Am Abend der Auferstehung: Die Erscheinung des auferstandenen Herrn vor den Jüngern (Joh 20, 19-23): Eine orthodox-exegetische Perspektive*
Walter Hilbrands

**Walter Hilbrands** is a lecturer in Old Testament studies at the Freien Theologischen Hochschule Gießen.

## Known work

* *Das Studium des Alten Testaments: eine Einführung in die Methoden der Exegese* - with Manfred Dreytza & Hartmut Schmid
* *„Du hast ihn wenig niedriger gemacht als Gott “–Zur hohen Anthropologie von Psalm 8*
* *Zehn Thesen zum biblischen Schöpfungsbericht (Gen 1, 1-2, 3) aus exegetischer Sicht*
* *Das Verhältnis der Engel zu Jahwe im Alten Testament, insbesondere im Buch Exodus*
* *Heilige oder Hure?: die Rezeptionsgeschichte von Juda und Tamar (Genesis 38) von der Antike bis zur Reformationszeit*
Nicla De Zorzi

**Nicla De Zorzi** is an Associate Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna.

## Known work

* *Bird divination in Mesopotamia: new evidence from BM 108874*
* *The Omen Series Šumma Izbu: Internal Structure and Hermeneutic Strategies*
* *Nigella in the Mirror of Time: A brief attempt to draw a genus' Ethnohistorical Portrait*
* *Teratomancy at Tigunānum: Structure, Hermeneutics, and Weltanschauung of a Northern Mesopotamian Omen Corpus*
Kathryn Bandy

**Kathryn E. Bandy** is a Lecturer in Egyptology in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago.

## Known work

* *Town and District: Local and Regional Administration during the Second Intermediate Period* - PhD-Thesis
* *A Family of Lector-Priests at Edfu. Oriental Institute Stela E11455 and the Ib Family during the Early Eighteenth Dynasty*
Will Kynes

**Will Kynes** is an Old Testament Scholar and Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Samford University.

## Known work

* *Beat Your Parodies into Swords, and Your Parodied Books into Spears: A New Paradigm for Parody in the Hebrew Bible*
* *My psalm has turned into weeping: Job's dialogue with the Psalms*
* *Reading Job Intertextually* - with Katharine Dell
* *The Modern Scholarly Wisdom Tradition and the Threat of Pan-Sapientialism: A Case Report*
* *The Nineteenth-Century Beginnings of ‘Wisdom Literature’, and Its Twenty-first-Century End?*
* *The ‘Wisdom Literature’Category: An Obituary*
John Walton

**John H. Walton** is an American Old Testament scholar, who has served as a professor Moody Bible Institute for 20 years, and serves now as a professor at Wheaton College.

## Literature

* *Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament*
* *The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate*
* *The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority*
* *The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2–3 and the Human Origins Debate*
* *The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites*
* *The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate*.
* *The Lost World of the Torah: Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context*
* *Demons and Spirits in Biblical Theology: Reading the Biblical Text in Its Cultural and Literary Context*
Ádám Vér

**Ádám Vér** is a Research Fellow of Assyriology at Eötvös Loránd University.

## Known work

* *Assyrians and Greeks: The nature of contacts in the 9th–7th centuries BC* - with Tamás Dezső
* *The Voices of Ištar* - with Réka Esztári
* *The local elite and the Assyrian administration in the Neo-Assyrian provinces in the Zagros*
Stanley Porter

**Stanley E. Porter** is Professor of New Testament and Roy A. Hope Chair in Christian Worldview at McMaster Divinity College.

## Known work

* *Verbal aspect in the Greek of the New Testament*
* *Idioms of the Greek New Testament*
* *Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament: Studies in Tools, Methods, and Practice*
Roman Vielhauer

**Roman Vielhauer** is a lecturer for Old Testament studies at Georg August University of Göttingen.

## Known work

* *Das Werden des Buches Hosea: Eine redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung*
* *Reading Hosea at Qumran*
* *Hosea in the Book of the Twelve*
* *Sodom and Gomorrah: From the Bible to Qumran*
* *Authoritative Scriptures: Prophets and Related Texts*
Uta Poplutz

**Uta Poplutz** is Professor of Biblical Theology with a focus on New Testament exegesis and theology at the University of Wuppertal (Bergische Universität Wuppertal).

## Known work

* *Athlet des Evangeliums: eine motivgeschichtliche Studie zur Wettkampfmetaphorik bei Paulus*
* *Erzählte Welt: narratologische Studien zum Mattäusevangelium*
* *The Pharisees: A house divided*
Roger Nam

**Roger S. Nam** is Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

## Known work

* *The Poorest of the Land': Perceptions and Identity of the Remnant in 2 Kings and Jeremia*
* *The Ma'hadu Port: A Test-Case for Economic Anthropology and the Interpretation of Late Bronze Age Economies*
* *Design and Analysis Kinesthetic Language Learning: How an Oversight Led to a Revelation*
* *Half Speak Ashdodite and None Can Speak Judean': Code-Switching in Ezra- Nehemiah as an Identity Marker for Repatriate Judeans and Koreans*
Yitzhak Berger

**Yitzhak Berger** is an Old Testament who is a Professor and Hebrew Administrator Hunter College of the City University of New York.

## Known work

* *The commentary of Rabbi David Kimḥi to Chronicles: a translation with introduction and supercommentary* - Daṿid Ḳimḥi
* *The Contextual Exegesis of Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency and the Climax of the Northern French Peshat Tradition*
* *The Commentary on Proverbs in Manuscript Vatican Ebr. 89 and the Early Exegesis of Radak*
* *Ruth and inner-Biblical allusion: The case of 1 Samuel 25*
* *Esther and Benjaminite royalty: a study in inner-Biblical allusion*
* *On Patterning in the Book of Samuel: ‘News of Death’and the Kingship of David*
* *Chiasm and Meaning in 1 Chronicles*
* *Jonah in the Shadows of Eden*
Peter Enns

**Peter Eric Enns** is an American Old Testament Scholar and theologian, who is currently works at Eastern University. He also serves as the co-host for *The Bible For Normal People*-podcast.

## Literature

* *The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs*
* *How the Bible Actually Works*
* *The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It*
Yonatan Adler

**Yonatan Adler** is an associate professor in the department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Ariel University in Israel.

## Known work

* *Ritual Baths Adjacent to Tombs: An Analysis of the Archaeological Evidence in Light of the Halakhic Sources*
* *Between priestly cult and common culture: The material evidence of ritual purity observance in early Roman Jerusalem reassessed*
* *10 The Distribution of Tefillin Finds among the Judean Desert Caves*
* *The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal*
Shai Gordin

**Shai Gordin** is a Senior Lecturer for Ancient Near Eastern History and Digital Humanities at Ariel University.

## Known work

* *Scribal Families of Hattuša in the 13th Century BCE: A Prosophographic Study - PhD-Thesis*
* *Scriptoria in Late Empire Period Hattusa: The Case of the É GIŠ. KIN. TI*
* *The Tablet and its Scribe: Between Archival and Scribal Spaces in Late Empire Period Ḫattusa*
* *The sociohistorical setting of Hittite schools of writing as reflected in scribal habits*
* *Hittite Scribal Circles. Scholarly Tradition and Writing Habits*
* *The Ousting of the Nūr-Sîns*
Zeba Crook

**Zeba Crook** is a Professor of religion at Carleton University, who specialises in New Testament-studies.

## Known work

* *Honor, shame, and social status revisited*
* *Reconceptualising conversion: patronage, loyalty, and conversion in the religions of the Ancient Mediterranean*
* *Collective memory distortion and the quest for the historical Jesus*
Robert Holmstedt

**Robert D. Holmstedt** is a Professor in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, who specialises in ancient semitic languages, such as Hebrew and Ugaritic.

## Notable work

* *The relative clause in Biblical Hebrew: A linguistic analysis* - PhD-Thesis
* *Beginning Biblical Hebrew: A Grammar and Illustrated Reade*r - with John Cook
Richard Middleton

**J. Richard Middleton** is a Professor of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis at Northeastern Seminary and an adjunct professor of Old Testament at the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology.

## Known work

* *Created in the image of a violent God? The ethical problem of the conquest of chaos in biblical creation texts*
* *The liberating image: The imago Dei in Genesis 1*
Paul Dilley

**Paul C. Dilley** is an Associate Professor for Ancient Mediterranean Religions at the University of Iowa.

## Known work

* *Dipinti in Late Antiquity and Shenoute's Monastic Federation: Text and Image in the Paintings of the Red Monastery*
* *Christian icon practice in apocryphal literature: consecration and the conversion of synagogues into churches*
* *Religious intercrossing in late Antique Eurasia: Loss, corruption, and canon formation*
* *Mani at the court of the Persian kings: studies on the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex* - with Iain Gardner & Jason Beduhn
* *Mani’s Wisdom at the Court of the Persian Kings: The Genre and Context of the Chester Beatty Kephalaia*
* *Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity: Cognition and Discipline*
Mikko Luukko

**Mikko Ilmari Luukko** is a Finnish Assyriologist, who specialises in Akkadian grammar.

## Known work

* *The political correspondence of Esarhaddon* - with Greta Van Buylaere
* *Grammatical Variation in Neo-Assyrian* - PhD-Thesis
* *Who Were the" Ladies of the House" in the Assyrian Empire?* - with Saana Svärd
* *The Standard Babylonian Myth of Nergal and Ereshkigal -* with Simonetta Ponchia