Heeraman Tiwari is Senior Assistant Professor in the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Research interests include Indian Philosophy, the intellectual history of early and medieval India, and Sanskrit language and literature.

Rami Reiner is Professor at the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests are the history of Halakhah and Talmud exegesis in medieval Europe, together with the social history of the Jewish communities in this region.

Moshe Y. Vardi is an Israeli mathematician and a computer scientist. He is the George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University.