Beate Ego, 1958; Ph.D. (1987), is Professor for Old Testament and Ancient Judaism at the Department of Education and Culture at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. Her main areas of research are Literature and Theology of the Second Temple Era as well as Rabbinic Literature and Targumic Studies.Armin Lange, Dr. theol. (1995), University of Münster, habil. (2001), University of Tübingen, is Professor for Second Temple Judaism at the University of Vienna. He published on the Dead Sea Scrolls, prophetic and sapiential literature including Weisheit und Prädestination (1995) and Vom prophetischen Wort zur prophetischen Tradition (2002).Hermann Lichtenberger, Dr.theol., is Professor of New Testament and Ancient Judaism at the University of Tübingen, Director of the Institut für antikes Judentum und hellenistische Religionsgeschichte. His most recent book is Das Ich Adams und das Ich der Menschheit, (2004).Kristin De Troyer is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California. Her most recent publication is Rewriting the Sacred Text, (2004).