Lincoln Christian University

Dale C. Allison Jr. (PhD Duke University) is the Errett M. Grable Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Early Christianity at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Before then he served on the faculties of Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, TX) and Friends University (Wichita, KS). He is the author of more than twenty books and more than one hundred other academic publications. These include books on early Christian eschatology, the so-called Sayings Source or "Q", a commentary on the Testament of Abraham, and the three-volume ICC commentary on Matthew. His most recently published works include The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus, and Constructing Jesus: History, Miory, and Imagination. He has recently completed the commentary on James for the ICC and is at work on a monograph on John the Baptist and a commentary on Paraleipomena Jeriiou (4 Baruch).

Mark Goodacre is an Associate Professor in New Testament at the Department of Religion, Duke University, North Carolina, USA. He earned his MA, MPhil and DPhil at the University of Oxford and was Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham until 2005. His research interests include the Synoptic Gospels, the Historical Jesus and the Gospel of Thomas. Goodacre is editor of the Library of New Testament Studies book series and the author of several books including The Case Against Q (2002) and Thomas and the Gospels (2012). He is well known for the award-winning Internet site, The New Testament Gateway, the Web directory of academic New Testament resources, and he has his own regular podcast on the New Testament, the NTBlog.

Chris Keith is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Lincoln Christian University. Dr. Keith completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2008. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John, and the Literacy of Jesus (a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise) and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemeis: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels. He has published academic essays in journals such as Zeitschrift fur die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, New Testament Studies, Novum Testamentum, and Biblica. Dr. Keith was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar, and is a member of the Memoria Romana project, which applies memory theory to various aspects of ancient Roman history.

Anthony Le Donne is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Second Temple Judaism at Lincoln Christian University. He completed his PhD at Durham University (England) in 2007. His research interests include historical Jesus, philosophy of history, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. His books include The Historiographical Jesus: Memory, Typology, and the Son of David (2009) and Historical Jesus: What Can We Know and How Can We Know It? (2011). He is the co-editor of The Fourth Gospel in First Century Media Culture (2011). Dr. Le Donne’s forthcoming books include topics in religious violence and Jewish-Christian dialogue. His home on the Web is AnthonyLeDonne.com.

Scot McKnight is the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University in Chicago. He is a globally recognized author and speaker (via radio and television) on the topic of Historical Jesus, Christianity, and the Early Church. He is the author of more than thirty books, including the award-winning The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others (2004), which won the Christianity Today book of the year for Christian Living. Recent books include Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us (2005), The Story of the Christ (2006), and The Real Mary: Why Evangelical Christians Can Embrace the Mother of Jesus (2007). Other books include Jesus and His Death (2005) and The King Jesus Gospel (2011). He is a co-editor of the award-winning The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (1992) and The Historical Jesus in Current Study (2005). His award-winning blog, Jesus Creed, has been rated by Technorati.com as the number one site for Emerging Church.

Loren T. Stuckenbruck (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. Previously, he held the B.F. Westcott Chair in Biblical Studies at Durham University, Department of Theology and Religion. He has also taught at the University of Kiel, Germany. He has received research fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation. He is, or has been, editor for many journals, including Zeitschrift für die neutesstamentliche Wissenschaft, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Journal of Biblical Literature, New Testament Studies, and Dead Sea Discoveries. He is also editor of several series, including Themes in Bibical Narrative (Brill), Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature (Walter de Gruyter), and Library of Second Temple Studies (Continuum). Stuckenbruck’s research, published in several monographs and more than a hundred academic articles, focuses on Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity and reflects both historical and theological interests.

Jens Schroeter is the Chair and Professor of Exegesis and Theology of the New Testament and New Testament Apocrypha at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Professor Schroeter received his PhD from the University of Heidelberg in 1992. His dissertation was on Paul as mediator of the Gospel between God and the community according to 2 Corinthians. He completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1996 with a thesis on the early Jesus tradition in Mark, Q, and Thomas. His research interests include Historical Jesus, Acts of the Apostles, Theology of the New Testament, and Apocryphal Gospels. He has authored several academic essays on these topics. His books include Jesus and the Beginnings of Christology (2001), Eucharist in the New Testament and Early Christianity (2006, second edition 2009, revised edition 2010), Jesus of Nazaret (2006, second edition 2009), and From Jesus to the New Testament: Studies on Early Christian Theology and the Development of the New Testament Canon (2007). He has also edited several books with essays on topics such as Historical Jesus, Acts of the Apostles, the Gospel of Thomas and Jesus in the Apocryphal Gospels.

Dagmar Winter (PhD, Heidelberg) is an author, an Anglican parish priest in rural Northumberland, Northeast England, and Diocesan Rural Affairs Officer. From 1982-1989, Winter studied theology at the universities of Erlangen, Aberdeen, and Heidelberg. Her PhD was supervised by Gerd Theissen and was published in conjunction with Theissen in 1997. It was translated in 2002 as The Quest for the Plausible Jesus: The Question of Criteria. After this publication, a popular book on Jesus followed in 2005 titled In the Footsteps of Jesus: Explorations and Reflections in the Land of the Holy One. In addition to her parish responsibilities, she maintains an active interest in New Testament studies, interweaving this subject with the theological questions of rural life and ministry, teaching, and mentoring. She has written on pastoral skills for rural ministry and on a theological perspective on the sustainability agenda in the rural context, reflecting on the implications of Jesus' rural background.

Rafael Rodríguez received his PhD in Biblical Studies from The University of Sheffield (2008). His dissertation was published as, Structuring Early Christian Memory: Jesus in Tradition, Performance, and Text (T&T Clark International, 2010). He is Associate Professor of New Testament at Johnson University, Knoxville, TN. He has published articles in the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, the Journal for the Study of the New Testament, and the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. His research interests include the historical Jesus, social/collective memory of historical figures (esp. Jesus and Paul), oral traditional dynamics, and encounters between Judaism and Christianity in the first two centuries CE. His blog, Verily Verily, can be found at thinkinginpublic.blogspot.com.