Emily R. Askew (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Lexington Theological Seminary, Lexington, Kentucky. Her research interests include the intersections between theology and cultural geography, immigration, the environment, economics, politics, and sexuality. She has been a regular instructor in adult education at a variety of churches and faith groups. With Wesley Allen, she is author of Beyond Heterosexism in the Pulpit (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015). As a Fulbright scholar in 2006, she studied the challenges of Muslim immigration in France and Germany.
Eric D. Barreto (Ph.D., Emory University) is the Frederick and Margaret L. Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. As a Baptist minister, Barreto has pursued scholarship for the sake of the church. He is a leader in the Hispanic Theological Initiative Consortium. He edited Reading Theologically (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014) and with Michael Chan is co-author of Exploring the Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2016), both in the Foundations for Learning series. His forthcoming books include “All of You Are One”: Paul and the Construction of Ethnic Theologies and “A People for God’s Name”: Theology and Ethnicity in the Acts of the Apostles.
Chad Thomas Beck (Ph.D., Indiana University), an alumnus of Union Presbyterian Seminary, is Pastor of Basic United Methodist Church, Waynesboro, Virginia, a multicultural, bilingual church. His research interests include Latin American and Latino/a studies, Latino/a Christian ethics and biblical interpretation, and Wesleyan theological ethics. Beck is the author of “Azteca America’s Performance of Mexicanness in the Pan-Hispanic Television Market,” International Journal of Cultural Studies 13 (2010): 271–89. He was a Fulbright-Hays Scholar in Mexico City.
Timothy Luckritz Marquis (Ph.D., Yale University) is Associate Professor of New Testament and Director of the Master of Arts in Theological Studies Degree Program at Moravian Theological Seminary, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His areas of research and teaching interest include ancient travel and early Christian itinerancy; Paul’s letters; gender, sexuality, and performativity; ancient ethnicity and imperial power; and political theology. He is author of Transient Apostle: Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013) and Itinerancy and Christian Origins: A Biopolitics of Wandering (forthcoming).
Tessa Rajak (Ph.D., University of Oxford) is Professor of Ancient History, Emerita, at the University of Reading, Berkshire, England. Her research focuses on Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and she is an expert on the writings of Josephus. She is the author of Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome: Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction, AGJU 48 (Leiden: Brill, 2002), and Josephus: The Historian and His Society (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984). She co-edited (with Sarah Pearce et al.) Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008) and (with John North and Judith Lieu) The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire (London: Routledge, 1992).
Shani Tzoref (Ph.D., New York University) is Professor at the Abraham Geiger College and the School of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Her research interests include early Jewish biblical interpretation, the Dead Sea Scrolls and related literature, narratological analysis of the Hebrew Bible, and history of modern biblical scholarship. She is author of The Pesher Nahum Scroll from Qumran: An Exegetical Study of 4Q169, STDJ 53 (Leiden: Brill, 2004) and several articles on the Dead Sea Scrolls, including “Qumran Communities—Then and Now,” in Shani Tzoref and Ian Young, eds., Keter Shem Tov: Essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls in Memory of Alan Crown, PHSC 20 (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2013), 25–65.
