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1. Robert Alter

   Author of The Art of Biblical Narrative, Genesis: Translation and Commentary, The Literary Guide to the Bible

2. Nahum M. Sarna

   Author of Understanding Genesis (The Heritage of Biblical Israel), JPS Torah Commentary: Genesis, Exodus: The Traditional Hebrew Text With the New Jps Translation (J P S Torah Commentary)

3. Abraham Joshua Heschel

   Author of The Prophets, The Sabbath, God in Search of Man : A Philosophy of Judaism

4. Richard E. Friedman

   Author of Who Wrote the Bible?, The Hidden Book in the Bible, The Bible with Sources Revealed

5. Wayne A. Meeks

   Author of The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul, The Origins of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuries, The Moral World of the First Christians (Library of Early Christianity, Vol 6)

6. Jon D. Levenson

   Author of Creation and the Persistence of Evil, The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity, The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism: Jews and Christians in Biblical Studies

7. David Rosenberg

   Author of The Book of J, Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bible, A Poet's Bible: Rediscovering the Voices of the Original Text

8. David E. Aune

   Author of The New Testament in Its Literary Environment (Library of Early Christianity, Vol 8), Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World

9. Elaine Pagels

   Author of The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent

10. Abraham J. Malherbe

    Author of Moral Exhortation a Greco Roman Sourcebook (Library of Early Christianity)

11. James H. Charlesworth

    Author of The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 1: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 2: Expansions of the Old Testament and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms, and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic works, The Old Testament pseudepigrapha

12. Jaroslav Pelikan

    Author of The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600), Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture, Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages

13. Shaye J. D. Cohen

    Author of From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, Second Edition, The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties (Hellenistic Culture and Society)

14. E. P. Sanders

    Author of The Historical Figure of Jesus, Jesus and Judaism

15. W. D. Davies

    Author of Paul and Rabbinic Judaism: Some Rabbinic Elements in Pauline Theology, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew: Matthew 8-18 (International Critical Comm, Matthew 1-7: a Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew (International Critical Comme

16. Robert McQueen Grant

    Author of Gods and the One God (Library of Early Christianity, Vol 1)

17. Karen Armstrong

    Author of The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions, The Bible: A Biography

18. John E. Stambaugh

    Author of The New Testament in Its Social Environment (Library of Early Christianity, Vol 2)

19. Gerhard von Rad

    Author of Genesis: A Commentary (Old Testament Library), Old Testament Theology, One-Volume Edition

20. Israel Finkelstein

    Author of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition