Gregorio del Olmo Lete, Ph.D. (1972) in Semitic Philology, University of Madrid, is ordinary Professor of Hebrew Language at the University of Barcelona. He has specialized in Northwest Semitic Philology and published extensively on Ugaritic and Biblical Hebrew studies, inclusing Mitos y leyendas de Canaán (1981) and La religión cananea (1992, Eng. 1999).
Joaquín Sanmartín, Ph.D. (1978) in Biblical Sciences, Biblical Institute, Rome, is ordinary Professor of Semitic Philology at the University of Barcelona. He has published extensively on Ugaritic, Akkadian and Hebrew, including the co-edition (with M. Dietrich and O. Loretz) of the Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit (KTU).