Apocrypha and the Septuagint

Bruce W. Longenecker (PhD, University of Durham) is Professor of Religion and W. W. Melton Professor of Christian Origins at Baylor University. He has previously taught at the University of St. Andrews, Cambridge University, and the University of Durham. He is the author of several books, including Remember the Poor: Paul, Poverty, and the Greco-Roman World, and The Lost Letters of Pergamum: A Story from the New Testament World.

Marieke Dhont (PhD, Université Catholique de Louvain) is an FWF ESPRIT Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Salzburg University, an Affiliated Lecturer with the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. She is the author of Style and Context of Old Greek Job and the editor of the T&T Clark Handbook to Hellenistic Jewish Literature in Greek.

James K. Aitken (1968-2023) was Professor of Hebrew, Old Testament and Second Temple Studies, and Chair of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 2019–2022. He was also a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He held the Grinfield Lectureship at the University of Oxford in 2021–2022.

Craig A. Evans (PhD, Claremont; DHabil, Károli Gáspár) is Distinguished Research Professor at The Bible Seminary in Katy, Texas.

Cecilia Wassén (PhD, McMaster University) is professor of New Testament at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Adela Yarbro Collins (PhD, Harvard) is Buckingham Professor Emerita of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. She is the author of Mark in the Hermeneia Commentary series, The Beginning of the Gospel: Probings of Mark in Context.

John J. Collins (PhD, Harvard) is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. He has authored or edited numerous books, including The Scepter and the Star: Messianism in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview, coedited with Daniel C. Harlow.

Grant Macaskill (PhD, University of St. Andrews) holds the Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He was previously Senior Lecturer in New Testament at the University of St. Andrews, where he had completed both his doctoral and postdoctoral projects. His research engages with the New Testament as a coherent body of theological literature emerging from the diverse contexts of late Second Temple Judaism. He is author of Union with Christ in the New Testament (Oxford, 2014). 

Nathan C. Johnson (PhD, Princeton) is assistant professor of religion at the University of Indianapolis. He is the author of The Suffering Son of David in Matthew’s Passion Narrative.