William P. Brown (Ph.D., Emory University) is the William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. He has abiding interests in the use of Scripture in the life of the church and the world, particularly in the context of ecology and justice. Specific interests include creation theology, faith and science dialogue, the Psalms, and wisdom literature (Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes). Recent books include The Seven Pillars of Creation: Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder (Oxford University Press, 2010), Wisdom’s Wonder (Eerdmans, 2014), and Sacred Sense (Eerdmans, 2015).
Carrie A. Cifers (M.Div., Union Presbyterian Seminary) is a Ph.D. candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. She studies Judaism and Christianity in antiquity, specializing in Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism. Her work seeks to bring the Hebrew Bible and its literary relatives into conversation with the growing fields of Narrative Ethics and Socio-Narratology. Her forthcoming dissertation is (provisionally) entitled Deciding Dinah in Ancient Jewish Histories.
Judy Fentress-Williams (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of Old Testament at Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia. Her fields of expertise include Hebrew Bible, dialogic interpretation, religious studies, Afro-American studies, and literary criticism. She is ordained as a Minister of the Gospel in the National Baptist Convention and Progressive National Baptist Convention. She is author of Ruth in the Abingdon Old Testament Commentary Series (Abingdon, 2012) and Old Testament editor for the CEB Women’s Bible (Abingdon, 2016).
Alison Acker Gruseke (Ph.D., Yale University) is a research associate at Williams College, Williamsburg, Massachusetts, and she formerly taught at Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia. Her work seeks interfaces among identity, religion, history, and geography, especially in the Hebrew Bible’s relationship to ancient Western Asia. She is co-editor with Carolyn J. Sharp of a forthcoming Festschrift (Zaphon, 2023) in honor of Robert R. Wilson. She is a member of the Episcopal Church.
Theodore Hiebert (Ph.D. Harvard University) is the Francis A. McGaw Professor of Old Testament at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois. His current projects include a commentary on Genesis for the Abingdon Old Testament Commentary series and a commentary on Joel for Hermeneia. His books include The Yahwist’s Landscape: Nature and Religion in Early Israel (New York: Oxford, 1996) and the co-edited volume (with Prescott Williams) of Realia Dei: Essays in Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Edward F. Campbell, Jr. (Scholars, 1999). He is a member of the Mennonite Church.
Ethan Schwartz (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the prophetic literature, with interests in the representation of prophetic interaction with institutional authority, the comparative study of biblical and ancient Near Eastern prophecy, the redaction of the prophetic corpus, and the reception of the prophetic literature in Judaism and Christianity. Beyond his academic research and teaching, he is committed to bringing biblical studies into productive conversation with Jewish and Christian religious life, including Jewish-Christian dialogue.
