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Adele Reinhartz, General Editor Jonathan M. Potter, Managing Editor Caitlin J. Montgomery, Editorial Assistant Elizabeth Boase Helen Bond Jo-Ann A. Brant Tony Burke David M. Carr Richard J. Clifford Kelley Coblentz Bautch Colleen Conway Toan Do Kathy Ehrensperger Georg Fischer Paula Fredriksen Wil Gafney Frances Taylor Gench Shimon Gesundheit Mark Goodacre Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor Rachel Havrelock Else K. Holt David G. Horrell Caroline E. Johnson Hodge Jonathan Klawans Jennifer Knust

Bruce W. Longenecker Michael A. Lyons Daniel Machiela John W. Marshall Naphtali Meshel Christine Mitchell Kenneth Ngwa Ken M. Penner Pierluigi Piovanelli Mark Reasoner Thomas Römer Dalit Rom-Shiloni Jean-Pierre Ruiz Seth L. Sanders Konrad Schmid William M. Schniedewind Abraham Smith Johanna Stiebert John T. Strong D. Andrew Teeter Matthew Thiessen Steven Tuell Cecilia Wassen Emma Wasserman Lawrence M. Wills