Wayne A. Meeks

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1. Raymond E. Brown

   Author of An Introduction to the New Testament, Birth of the Messiah, The Community of the Beloved Disciple: The Life, Loves and Hates of an Individual Church in New Testament Times

2. 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)

3. E. P. Sanders

   Author of The Historical Figure of Jesus, Jesus and Judaism, Judaism: Practice and Belief, 63 Bce-66 Ce

4. Richard B. Hays

   Author of The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethi, Interpretation, a Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching, Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul

5. Eduard Schweizer

   Author of The Good News According to Mark., The Good News According to Matthew

6. Walter Brueggemann

   Author of The Prophetic Imagination, Genesis

7. Luke Timothy Johnson

   Author of The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation, The Real Jesus, Living Jesus: Learning the Heart of the Gospel

8. 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

9. James D. G. Dunn

   Author of The Theology of Paul the Apostle, Unity and Diversity in the New Testament: An Inquiry into the Character of Earliest Christianity, Baptism in the Holy Spirit: A Re-Examination of the New Testament Teaching on the Gift of the Spirit in Relation to Pent

10. James Kugel

    Author of The Bible As It Was, Early Biblical Interpretation (Library of Early Christianity, Vol 3)

11. Adele Berlin

    Author of The Jewish Study Bible: featuring The Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation, The New Interpreter's Bible, Vol. 4: 1 & 2 Maccabees; Introduction to Hebrew Poetry; Job; Psalms

12. Rudolf Bultmann

    Author of Theology of the New Testament, The History of the Synoptic Tradition

13. Abingdon Press

    Author of The New Interpreter's Bible, Vol. 1: General Articles on the Bible; General Articles on the Old Testament; Genesis; Exodus; Leviticus, The New Interpreter's Bible, Vol. 9: Luke; John

14. Shaye J. D. Cohen

    Author of From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, Second Edition

15. Günther Bornkamm

    Author of Jesus of Nazareth, Paul

16. C. K. Barrett

    Author of New Testament Background: Selected Documents: Revised and Expanded Edition, The Epistle to Romans, Revised

17. Alan F. Segal

    Author of Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee, Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World

18. 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

19. Abraham J. Malherbe

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

20. Stephen Neill

    Author of The Interpretation of the New Testament, 1861-1986