Jim West is a Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Church History at Ming Hua Theological College, Hong Kong, and Associate Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament. He is the author of a series of commentaries on the Bible and co-editor, with J. Crossley, of History, Politics and the Bible from the Iron Age to the Media Age (2016).

Niels Peter Lemche is Professor Emeritus at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His work on the history of 'ancient Israel' and the Old Testament as a book dating mainly from the Hellenistic period is well known. His work on prophets includes studies in the Books of Isaiah and Jeremiah, as well as a study of prophets as the other side of the coin compared to Deuteronomistic historical literature. He is the Founder of the European Association of Biblical Studies, and has been Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament since he founded it in 1987.