Jeremy S. Begbie (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) is the Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology and Director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts, Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. He holds music performance and education degrees from the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, London. His publications include Music, Modernity and God: Essays in Listening (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007), and Theology, Music and Time (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Joel M. LeMon (Ph.D., Emory University) is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. He is a conservatory-trained musician who views music as a tool for engaging with Scripture. LeMon’s research focuses on the Psalms, Hebrew and Ugaritic poetry, and ancient Near Eastern history, literature, and art. He is co-editor (with Izaak J. de Hulster), of Image, Text, Exegesis: Iconographic Interpretation and the Hebrew Bible, Library of Hebrew Bible (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015). He authored Yahweh’s Winged Form in the Psalms: Exploring Congruent Iconography and Texts (Fribourg: Academic Press, 2010) and is co-editor of Method Matters: Essays on the Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David L. Petersen (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009).
Don E. Saliers (Ph.D., Yale University) is William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship, Emeritus, and Theologian in Residence at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. For many years he directed the Master of Sacred Music program at Emory and was an organist and choirmaster at Cannon Chapel for 35 years. An accomplished musician, theologian, and scholar of liturgics, Saliers is the author of fifteen books on the relationship between theology and worship practices. He co-authored A Song to Sing, a Life to Live with his daughter Emily Saliers, a graduate of Emory University and member of the Grammy-winning folk-rock duo Indigo Girls.
Carol L. Schnabl Schweitzer (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) is Associate Professor of Pastoral Care at Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia. Schweitzer is a graduate of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey and is a conservatory-trained musician. An ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, she has served as a pastor in several Pennsylvania churches. She is the author of The Stranger’s Voice: Julia Kristeva’s Relevance for a Pastoral Theology for Women Struggling with Depression, Practical Theology (New York: Peter Lang, 2010).
Zoe Sherinian (Ph.D., Wesleyan University) is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. After conducting research in Tamil Nadu, India as a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in 2008–2009, she produced and directed two documentary films: This is A Music: Reclaiming an Untouchable Drum (2011) and Sakthi Vibrations (forthcoming). She published Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013) and is presently writing a book entitled Drumming Our Liberation: The Spiritual, Cultural, and Sonic Power of the Parai Drum. As an active musician, she performs on the parai drum, mrdangam, and jazz drum set.
