Steven Fine is the Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University and director of the YU Center for Israel Studies. A cultural historian of ancient Judaism, Fine's books include: Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology (Cambridge, 2005, 2010, AJS Schnitzer Book Award), The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (Harvard University Press, 2016). Recently, Fine edited two volumes celebrating exhibitions which he also curated: The Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem to Rome and Back (Brill, 2021) and The Samaritans (Brill, 2022). Fine is a founding editor of IMAGES: A Journal for the Study of Jewish Art and Visual Culture and of Horeb: Studies in Rabbinic Culture.

A.J. Berkovitz is a scholar of Jewish Antiquity. His research explores Jewish texts, traditions, and history from the formation of the Hebrew Bible until the rise of Islam. He received his Ph.D. in Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity from Princeton University and a B.A./M.A. in Jewish Studies/Bible from Yeshiva University. His first book, A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity (University of Pennsylvania) explores the history of Psalm reception in late ancient Judaism through the lenses of materiality, exegesis, liturgy, piety, and magic. The book received a Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award from the Association for Jewish Studies and the Honorable Mention in the American Academy for Jewish Research’s Salo Baron Prize. He is also the co-editor of Rethinking ‘Authority’ in Late Antiquity: Authorship, Law, and Transmission in Jewish and Christian Tradition (Routledge, 2018) and the author of over thirty academic articles and popular essays. His article, “Psalm 45 Between Abraham and Jesus: A Palestinian Rabbinic Polemic and its Shelf Life,” was awarded the 2021 CRINT Prize Essay. He was a Starr Fellow at Harvard and also Wexner Graduate Fellow.

Lennart Lehmhaus is an assistant professor at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research and teaching interests include ancient Jewish cultures and literatures, mainly rabbinic and talmudic texts; premodern medicine, knowledge, and sciences; and trajectories of Jewish traditions, motifs, and customs into contemporary Jewish and Israeli culture. He is founding editor of the series ASK—Ancient Cultures of Sciences and Knowledge (Mohr Siebeck) and coordinator of the collaborative research network “Between Encyclopaedia and Epitome—Talmudic Strategies of Knowledge-Making in the Context of Ancient Medicine and Sciences” (Tübingen University, University College London, Free University, Berlin).

Shlomo Zuckier is a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. After completing his PhD in Religious Studies at Yale University, Shlomo was a Flegg Postdoctoral Research Fellow at McGill University’s Jewish Studies Department and a Research Fellow in Notre Dame’s Center for Philosophy of Religion. His Theologies of Sacrifice and Atonement in Ancient Judaism is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.