Jan Joosten, PhD (1989) Jerusalem, ThD (1994) Brussels is Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford and Student of Christ Church. His research is mainly concerned with Hebrew grammar, textual criticism and Septuagint studies.

Daniel Machiela, PhD (2007) Notre Dame, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University. His research deals with the literature and history of Second Temple period Judaism, focused especially on Jewish scriptural interpretation, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Aramaic writings.

Jean-Sébastien Rey, PhD (2006) Strasbourg and Leuven, is Professor of Exegesis at the University of Lorraine in Metz, France. He is director of the Revue de Qumrân and his fields of research concern the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish and Early Christian literature of the Hellenistic and Roman Period.