John Sawyer (Editor in Chief). Professor of Biblical and Jewish Studies at Lancaster University, UK; formerly Assistant Lecturer in Old Testament Language and Literature at Glasgow University and Head of Religious Studies at Newcastle upon Tyne. Studied at Edinburgh University and the Hebrew University Jerusalem. Author of Semantics in Biblical Research (1972), A Modern Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (1976), From Moses to Patmos. New Perspectives in the Study of the Old Testament (1977), Prophecy and the Biblical Prophets (1993), The Fifth Gospel. Isaiah in the History of Christianity (1996), Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts (1999) and A Concise Dictionary of the Bible and its Reception (2009). Editor of the Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture (2006).
Judith Kovacs, Religious Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Christopher Rowland, Queens College, Oxford
David M. Gunn, A. A. Bradford Professor of Religion, Texas Christian University. David has completed the Judges commentary (published in January 2005) and remains as editor.
Rebecca Harkin, Commissioning Editor, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.