Jonathan Klawans is Professor of Religion at Boston University. He is the author of Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism, Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple, Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism, and Heresy, Forgery, Novelty .

Lawrence M. Wills is visiting professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies at Brown University. His books include The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World, which was named an Outstanding Academic Book of 1995 by Choice magazine for academic librarians, and also Not God's People: Insiders and Outsiders in the Biblical World.

Yonatan Adler
Cynthia M. Baker
Albert I. Baumgarten
Noah Bickart
Alejandro F. Botta
Miryam T. Brand
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
Lisbeth S. Fried
Naomi Koltun-Fromm
Deborah Levine Gera
Greg Schmidt Goering
Matthew Goff
Leonard J. Greenspoon
Maxine L. Grossman
Noah Hacham
Christine Hayes
Martha Himmelfarb
Karina Martin Hogan
Naomi S. S. Jacobs
Alex P. Jassen
Jonathan Klawans
Paul J. Kosmin
Matthew Kraus
David A. Lambert
Shira L. Lander
Amy-Jill Levine
Doron Mendels
Stuart S. Miller
Eva Mroczek
Aaron D. Panken Z"L
Annette Yoshiko Reed
Eyal Regev
Michael L. Satlow
Daniel R. Schwartz
Nadav Sharon
Malka Z. Simkovich
Steven Weitzman
Rodney A. Werline
Lawrence M. Wills
Jason M. Zurawski

"It deserves to be part of the library of all scholars of Second Temple Judaism. It will also be particularly helpful in the classroom, presenting as it does a non-Christian interpretation of what most students know as Christian scripture. In that regard, it fulfills its mission admirably, as did the other volumes in this outstanding trilogy." -- Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, Dead Sea Discoveries 29

"Overall, this volume is an excellent reference book. It targets a Jewish audience, offering guidance for learning the Second Temple heritage which shaped later Judaism. But it would also be a valuable book for Christian students of the bible, not only because the so-called apocryphal texts are part of Scripture in Church tradition, but also because it is important to know the Judaic heritage that formed the foundation of Christianity." -- Lydia Gore-Jones, Phronema

"...excellent essays..." -- Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern, The Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought