The Scholars

1. Christian-Bernard Amphoux is a specialist in the history of the texts and language of the New Testament. He is a researcher at the CNRS.

2. Pier Franco Beatrice is a professor at the University of Padua where he teaches the origins of Christianity. He is the author of numerous studies, focusing on the history of theology, the liturgy, and Christian doctrine.

3. Pierre-Antoine Bernheim lives and works in London. He is the author of James, Brother of Jesus (SCM Press, 1997) and is preparing an essay on Paul.

4. Francois Bovon is a professor at the Divinity School of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A specialist on the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, he is the author of Luke, the Theologian (Pickwick Publications, 1987), among other works.

5. Francois Blanchetière is Professor Emeritus of Human Sciences at the Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg. He has published two important books on Jewish Christianity.

6. Paula Fredrikson is a professor in the Religions Department of Boston University and a historian of early Christianity. She has published From Jesus to Christ (Yale University Press), Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life, and The Emergence of Christianity (Random House).

7. Pierre Geoltrain, a director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes-Etudes in Paris, specializes in the history of Christian ideas and the origins of Christianity. Together with Francois Bovon, he edited the first global French edition of Christian apocryphal books.

8. Christian Grappe is a professor of the New Testament at the School of Protestant Theology at the University of Strasbourg who works primarily on the original Christianity of the Church of Jerusalem and Peter.

9. Martin Hengel is Professor Emeritus of the New Testament and Jewish Antiquities at the University of Tubingen. After his classic text The Zealots in 1961, his books have been translated into nine languages. His work includes Crucifixion in the Ancient World and the Folly of the Message of the Cross (Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1977), The Prechristian Paul, Judaica et Hellenistica (1996), and Paul Between Damascus and Antioch (1997).

10. Moshe David Herr is a professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of several studies about Judaism in the first century.

11. Simon Legasse is Professor Emeritus of Biblical Science at the Catholic University of Toulouse who specializes in the trial of Jesus and the letters of Paul.

12. Jean-Pierre Lemonon is dean of the theology faculty at the Catholic University of Lyon, specializing in New Testament exegesis and first century history.

13. Emmanuelle Main teaches courses on the Mishna of the Talmud in the Department of Jewish People's History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has published works on Flavius Josephe, Qumrun, and the Acts of the Apostles, and she is currently working on her thesis on the Sadducees.

14. Daniel Marguerat, the Dean of the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Lausanne, is the author of several important works about Jesus and the birth of Christianity, including The First Christian Historian: Writing the "Acts of the Apostles" (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph S.) (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

15. Etienne Nodet is a former pupil of the Polytechnique School and a Dominican of the French School of Bible Archeology at Jerusalem. He assumed the translation for The Commentaries of Flavius Josephe's Jewish Antiquities for Le Cerf.

16. Enrico Norelli teaches at the Faculty of the Free University of Geneva. His publications focus on the apocrypha, the apologists, Marcion, and the exegesis of the ancient Christians.

17. Serge Ruzer is a specialist in Judaism of the Second Temple and teaches in the Department of Comparative Religions at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

18. Daniel Schwartz is a professor in the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of Agrippa I: The Last King of Judea (1990) and Studies in the Jewish Background of Christianity (1992). He is currently preparing an edition of Second livre des Macchabees for which he will also provide the translation.

19. Graham Stanton, a professor at the Divinity College of the University of Cambridge (Great Britain), specializes in the New Testament. He has published Jesus and Gospel (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and is currently investigating the martyr Justin and the first fathers of the church.

20. Ekkehard W. Stegman, a professor at the Theological Seminary at the University of Bale, has published mostly in German.

21. Guy Gedaliahu Stroumsa founded the Center for the Study of Christianity at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A specialist in Gnosticism, his notable publications include Secrecy and Concealment (Brill, 1995) and Hidden Wisolom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism (1996). With Jacques Le Brun, he wrote Les Juifs présentés aux Chrétiens (Les Belles Lettres, 1998).

22. David Trobisch, a professor of the New Testament, is currently teaching at the Theological Seminary of Bangor in Maine, where he is doing work on primitive literature and the history of the Epistles of Paul.

23. Francois Vouga is a professor at Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel and is part of the faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Bielefeld, both in Germany. He is a theologian and historian of the first era of Christianity.