Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Ph.D., Duke University) is Helen H.P. Manson Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis Emerita at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. She is the author, most recently, of When in Romans: An Invitation to Linger with the Gospel According to Paul (Baker, 2016) and is at work on a commentary on Romans for the New Testament Library series with Westminster John Knox Press. She is a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
L. Ann Jervis (Th.D., Wycliffe College and University of Toronto) is Professor of New Testament at Wycliffe College, Toronto, Ontario. She is the author of Introduction and Annotations to Romans in the New Oxford Annotated Bible, 5th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2018), At the Heart of the Gospel: Suffering in the Earliest Christian Message (Eerdmans, 2007), and The Purpose of Romans: A Comparative Letter Structure Investigation (Sheffield Academic, 1991). She is a priest in the Diocese of Toronto, the Anglican Church of Canada.
Meira Z. Kensky (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is the Joseph E. McCabe Associate Professor of Religion at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She is the author of Trying Man, Trying God: The Divine Courtroom in Early Jewish and Christian Literature (Mohr Siebeck, 2010). She is working on Go to Hell: Vicarious Travel with Peter and Paul in Earliest Christianity (Eerdmans) and Isopsychos: The Figure of Timothy in Early Christian Literature (Mohr Siebeck).
Scott C. Ryan (Ph.D., Baylor University) is Assistant Professor of Religion and Biblical Studies at Claflin College in Orangeburg, South Carolina. His forthcoming book, Divine Conflict and the Divine Warrior: Listening to Romans and Other Jewish Voices, will be published by Mohr Siebeck in the Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2 series. In this work, he addresses the variety of uses of divine conflict motifs in ancient Jewish documents and places these texts in conversation with Paul’s letter to the Romans.
Stephen L. Young (Ph.D., Brown University) is Lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. His areas of research include ancient Mediterranean literatures and cultures, New Testament and early Christianity, history of Judaism, classical philosophy and religion, and method and theory in religious studies. He is preparing Paul among the Mythmakers: Sin, Gods, and Sacred Texts (Oxford University Press).
