James Kugel

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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. James Kugel

   Author of The Bible As It Was, The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion with New Translations, Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible As It Was at the Start of the Common Era

3. Jon D. Levenson

   Author of Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible, Creation and the Persistence of Evil, The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity

4. Nahum M. Sarna

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

5. Richard E. Friedman

   Author of Who Wrote the Bible?, The Bible with Sources Revealed, Commentary on the Torah

6. 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

7. 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)

8. Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

9. 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

10. Elaine Pagels

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

11. Abraham J. Malherbe

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

12. 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

13. 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

14. E. P. Sanders

    Author of The Historical Figure of Jesus, Jesus and Judaism

15. 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)

16. Karen Armstrong

    Author of The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions, The Bible: A Biography, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

17. Everett Fox

    Author of The Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy (The Schocken Bible, Volume 1), Give Us a King!: Samuel, Saul, and David

18. Gerhard von Rad

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

19. Robert McQueen Grant

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

20. John E. Stambaugh

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