ROBERT KUGLER is the Paul S. Wright Professor of Christian Studies at Lewis and Clark College. He teaches courses on Jewish and Christian origins, the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and New Testament. His particular area of academic interest involves the interpretive traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but he is also interested in Jewish and Christian literature from Greco-Roman Egypt. Kugler is the author and co-editor of numerous books and essays, including An Introduction to the Bible by Eerdmans Publishing. He earned a Ph.D. in Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity from University of Notre Dame.

MICHAEL A. WILLIAMS is a professor of comparative religion at the University of Washington and a former chair of UW's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He teaches a wide range of courses in the fields of Early Christian and New Testament studies. The author of Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Problematic Category, as well as dozens of articles and book reviews, Williams' primary areas of academic interest are in Greco-Roman Religions and Gnosticism. He earned a Ph.D. in the New Testament and Christian Origins from Harvard University.

JASON BEDUHN is an associate professor of religious studies at Northern Arizona University. His areas of expertise include Biblical Studies, Religious of Late Antiquity, and Manichaeism. The author of such books as The Manichaean Body: In Discipline and Ritual and Truth in Translation: Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament, BeDuhn earned a Ph.D. in the Comparative Study of Religions from Indiana University.

IAN WERRETT is director of the Spiritual life Institute and an association professor of religious studies at Saint Martin's University. An expert on the Hebrew Scriptures, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Ancient Judaism, he has given lectures and presented conference papers in North America, Europe and Israel. He as worked in situ with the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem and is the author of a book entitled Ritual Purity and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Werrett earned a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies and Second Temple Judaism from the University of St. Andrews.