The Helper (8″ by 10″ watercolor on paper; from the Contemplative Series). Contemporary artist Kathrin Burleson, http://www.kathrinburleson.com.
Silvia Schroer is Professor of Old Testament on the Faculty of Theology at the University of Berne. She is the author of numerous publications on the religious history and iconography of Palestine/Israel, biblical anthropology, Wisdom literature, and feminist biblical interpretation. Among her books translated into English are Wisdom Has Built Her House (Liturgical, 2000) and Body Symbolism in the Bible (co-authored with Thomas Staubli, Liturgical, 2001). Schroer is founding editor of lectio difficilior, a European electronic journal for feminist exegesis (open access: www.lectio.unibe.ch).
Thomas Staubli received a Ph.D. from the University of Fribourg, where he established the BIBLE+ORIENT Museum and served as the first director until 2012. The services of the museum include an online-database (www.bible-orient-museum.ch/bodo) with more than 25,000 objects open to the public. Staubli teaches Old Testament Studies at the University of Fribourg. His areas of expertise include iconography and religious history of the Levant, Biblical Realia, Palestinian ethnography, and didactics of the Bible. Staubli has written many popular scientific books. He is also co-author with Silvia Schroer of Body Symbolism in the Bible (Liturgical, 2001).
Yung Suk Kim (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. He is the author of several books, including Christ’s Body in Corinth (Fortress, 2008) and A Theological Introduction to Paul’s Letters (Cascade, 2011). Kim’s forthcoming books include Biblical Interpretation (Pickwick Publications, 2012); A Transformative Reading of the Bible (Cascade, 2013); and Truth, Testimony, and Transformation (Cascade, 2013). He received a Lilly Theological Scholar Grant for his research project on the Fourth Gospel during 2011–2012. He also edited a volume on 1–2 Corinthians in the Fortress Texts @ Context series, which will appear in the spring of 2013. Kim serves as the editor of the Journal of Bible and Human Transformation. He is a validated minister of teaching in the Presbytery of the James, the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Nancey Murphy (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; Th.D., Graduate Theological Union) is Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary. Her publications include Reasoning and Rhetoric in Religion (Wipf & Stock, 2002), Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will (co-author, Oxford University Press, 2009), and as co-editor, Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Murphy is an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren.
Debra A. Reagan (M.Div., Brite Divinity School, M.Th., Union Presbyterian Seminary) is an independent scholar in the fields of theology and ethics. Her research interests include the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality, and how these contribute to marginalization. She is affiliated with both the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and Metropolitan Community Churches.
