John Barton (D.Phil., D.Litt., University of Oxford) is Oriel and Laing Professor (Emeritus) of the Interpretation of the Holy Scripture at Oriel College, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K. His research interests include the Old Testament prophets, canon, biblical ethics, and biblical theology. Among his recent publications are Ethics in Ancient Israel (Oxford University Press, 2014); The Theology of the Book of Amos (Cambridge University Press, 2012); Religious Diversity in Ancient Israel (T & T Clark, 2010); The Nature of Biblical Criticism (Westminster John Knox, 2007); and The Old Testament: Canon, Literature and Theology (Ashgate, 2007). He is a priest in the Church of England.
Walter Brueggemann (Th.D., Union Theological Seminary) is the William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament (Emeritus), Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. His work emphasizes prophetic imperatives for justice in biblical texts. Among his recent publications are Chosen? Reading the Bible Amid the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict (Westminster John Knox, 2015); Ice Axes for Frozen Seas: A Biblical Theology of Provocation (Baylor University Press, 2014); From Whom No Secrets Are Hid: Introducing the Psalms (Westminster John Knox, 2014); Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Texts (Eerdmans, 2014); and Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now (Westminster John Knox, 2014). He is ordained in the United Church of Christ.
John J. Collins (Ph.D., Harvard University) is the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut. His interests include apocalypticism, Wisdom literature, Hellenistic Judaism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Among his recent publications are The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2012); Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview (Eerdmans, 2012); Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Eerdmans, 2010); The Bible after Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age (Eerdmans, 2005); Encounters with Biblical Theology (Fortress, 2005), and Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture, JSPSup 100 (Brill, 2005). He is general editor of the Yale Anchor Bible series.
Kathleen M. O’Connor (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament (Emerita), Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. Her research focuses on Jeremiah, Wisdom literature, and trauma theory applied to biblical texts. Her recent publications are Jeremiah: Pain and Promise (Fortress, 2012); the New Collegeville Bible Commentary on Job (Liturgical Press, 2012); and Lamentations and the Tears of the World (Orbis, 2002). She is co-editor of Shaking Heaven and Earth (Westminster John Knox, 2005) and Troubling Jeremiah (Sheffield Academic Press, 1999).
Marvin A. Sweeney (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University) is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, California, and Professor of Tanak at the Academy for Jewish Religion, California. He specializes in the study of prophetic literature, biblical theology, literary-critical methodologies, ancient exegesis of biblical texts, and the interrelationship between religion and politics in both the ancient and modern worlds. His most recent publications include Reading Prophetic Books (Mohr Siebeck, 2014); Reading Ezekiel: A Literary and Theological Commentary (Smyth and Helwys, 2013); Tanak: A Theological and Critical Introduction to the Jewish Bible (Fortress, 2012); and Reading the Hebrew Bible after the Shoah: Engaging Holocaust Theology (Fortress, 2008).
This oil lamp (lucerna) from the Roman period represents the stylized logo for Interpretation, in honor of the journal’s seventieth anniversary. Private collection, Madrid, Spain. Photo Credit: Album/Art Resource, NY.
