Samuel L. Adams (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of Old Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, editor of Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). His interests include the wisdom literature of the Bible and beyond, wealth and poverty in the biblical world, apocalypticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Egyptology, biblical theology, and the Bible and film. His books include Wisdom in Transition: Act and Consequence in Second Temple Instructions (Brill, 2008) and Social and Economic Life in Second Temple Judea (Westminster John Knox, 2014). He is writing a commentary on the Jewish sage Ben Sira for the Anchor Yale Bible series (Yale University Press) and is editing an introduction to wisdom literature.
David A. deSilva (Ph.D., Emory University) is Trustees’ Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Ashland Theological Seminary, Ashland, Ohio. He is the author of over twenty books, including Introducing the Apocrypha: Message, Context, and Significance, 2nd ed. (Baker Academic, 2018); Day of Atonement: A Novel of the Maccabean Revolt (Kregel, 2015); The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude (Oxford University Press, 2012); and The Apocrypha, Core Biblical Studies (Abingdon, 2012). He has published major commentaries on Galatians, Hebrews, and 4 Maccabees and has participated in several Bible translation projects, most notably as Apocrypha Editor for the Common English Bible. An ordained elder in the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church, David has also served as director of music and organist for local churches since 1984.
Jennie Grillo (D.Phil., University of Oxford) is Assistant Professor of Theology at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana and is a 2018–2019 Fellow at the National Humanities Center, where she is writing a book on the Additions to Daniel in the history of interpretation. Her research interests include wisdom literature, ideas of idolatry in the Bible, and the interactions of early Jewish and early Christian biblical interpretation. She is the author of The Story of Israel in the Book of Qohelet: Ecclesiastes as Cultural Memory (Oxford University Press, 2012), which won a Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award. She is a lay Anglican.
Eva Mroczek (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis, California. Her research interests include ancient Judaism; the literary cultures of Hellenistic and Roman Judaism; the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha; the Dead Sea Scrolls; the psalms, prayer, and lament in the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism; and history of biblical interpretation. Her book The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2016) won the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award and the 2017 George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Book Prize. She is currently working on The Other David, a reception history of King David from antiquity to the present.
Stephen D. Ryan, O.P. (Ph.D., Harvard University) is an Assistant Professor at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. His research interests include the ancient versions of the Old Testament, textual criticism, patristic biblical interpretation, and wisdom literature. Ryan co-edited (with Adrian Schenker and Clemens Locher) an unfinished manuscript written by Dominique Barthélemy, Critique textuelle de l’Ancien Testament: Job, Proverbes, Qohélet et Cantique des Cantiques, OBO 50/5 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015). He is a priest in the Catholic Church and a member of the Order of Preachers.
