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William Adler

William Adler

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North Carolina State University
William is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. His research interests are early Judaism and Christianity, Jewish and Christian historiography and the reception of texts from the Second Temple period.
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Esther Eshel

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Bar-Ilan University
Esther is a professor in the Bible Department at Bar-Ilan University. Her research interests are Jewish literature of the Second Temple period, including later books of the Hebrew Bible, early Jewish exegesis and epigraphy of the First and Second Temple periods.
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Bas ter Haar Romeny

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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Bas is a professor in the Faculty of Humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research interests are the reception of the Hebrew Bible in ancient the versions and late antique biblical commentaries, in particular in Syriac and Greek; history and identity of ancient and late a
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Thomas H. Tobin S.J.

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Loyola University Chicago
Thomas is a professor in the Department of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. His research interests are Hellenistic Judaism, Philo of Alexandria, the Letters of Paul, Middle Platonism, and Gnosticism.
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Joseph Witztum

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joseph is a professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on Quran and Hadith and their interaction with rabbinic and Syriac traditions.
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Hagit Amirav

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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hagit is a professor in the Faculty of Texts and Traditions at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research interests are early Christianity and Patristics, particularly biblical exegesis; ancient rhetoric and techniques of literary expression, sociology and ancient history.
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Claudia Rosenzweig

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Bar-Ilan University
Claudia is a Professor in the Department of Literature of the Jewish People at Bar-Ilan University. Her research interests are old Yiddish Literature, Yiddish culture, philology, reception-theories and Judaeo-Italian languages.