List of Contributors
Loveday Alexander was Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield until her retirement in 2007. She holds honorary chairs at the Universities of Sheffield and St Andrews, and is Canon Theologian Emeritus at Chester Cathedral.
Philip Alexander is Professor Emeritus of Postbiblical Jewish Literature of the University of Manchester, and a Visiting Professor at the Universities of St Andrews and Chester. He writes widely on Judaism in Second Temple and Talmudic times, particularly on Targum and Midrash. He contributed the volumes on Song of Songs (2003) and Lamentations (2008) to the Aramaic Bible series.
Peter Bamford is Honorary Librarian at Chester Cathedral. He had a forty-year career as a librarian, including twenty years as Local Studies Librarian with Cheshire Archives and Local Studies.
Clyde Binfield is Professor Emeritus in History, University of Sheffield. He is a past President of the Ecclesiastical History Society, the United Reformed Church History Society, and the Chapels Society. He is also a Trustee of Dr Williams’s Library, the Yorkshire Historic Churches Trust, and the Historic Chapels Trust.
George J. Brooke is Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis Emeritus at the University of Manchester and Visiting Professor in Biblical Studies at the University of Chester. He has written widely on the Dead Sea Scrolls, including two volumes of essays, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament: Essays in Mutual Illumination (2005) and Reading the Dead Sea Scrolls: Essays in Method (2013).
David J. Chalcraft is Professor of Sociology and Subject Head, Department of Sociology, Liverpool John Moores University. He has edited collections of essays on Sectarianism in Early Judaism: Sociological Advances (2007) and Methods, Theories, Imagination: Social Scientific Approaches in Biblical Studies (2014).
Matthew A. Collins is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at the University of Chester. He is author of The Use of Sobriquets in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls (2009), series editor for the book series ‘Scriptural Traces: Critical Perspectives on the Reception and Influence of the Bible’, and co-chair of ‘The Biblical World and its Reception’ seminar for the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS).
Ligon Duncan is Chancellor/CEO and John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. He produced a revised edition of Matthew Henry’s A Method for Prayer (1994), which forms the basis of the popular online version.
Jeremy Gregory is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts and Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Nottingham. He is author of Restoration, Reformation, and Reform, 1660–1828: Archbishops of Canterbury and their Diocese (2000) and is the editor of Establishment and Empire, 1662–1829, vol. 2 of The Oxford History of Anglicanism (2017).
Christine Helmer is Arthur E. Andersen Research and Teaching Professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, as well as Professor of German and Religious Studies. She is the author of numerous publications in the areas of Luther studies, Schleiermacher studies, biblical theology, historical theology, and construction theology, including most recently Theology and the End of Doctrine (2014) and a co-edited volume (with Bo Holm) The Lutherrenaissance: Past and Present (2015).
Paul Middleton is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Chester. His publications include Radical Martyrdom and Cosmic Conflict in Early Christianity (2006), Martyrdom: A Guide for the Perplexed (2011), and The Violence of the Lamb: Martyrs as Agents of Divine Judgement in the Book of Revelation (2018).
Michael A.L. Smith gained a PhD degree from the University of Manchester in 2017 for his thesis ‘The Affective Communities of Protestantism in North West England, c.1660–c.1750’. He is interested in the history of emotion in the devotional habits of early modern English Protestants.
Stuart Weeks is Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Durham University. He is the author of An Introduction to the Study of Wisdom Literature (2010), The Making of Many Books: Printed Works on Ecclesiastes 1523–1875 (2014), and he is currently working on a commentary on Ecclesiastes for the International Critical Commentary series.
David L. Wykes is Director of Dr Williams’s Library, London. He writes on late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Dissent, and has a particular interest in Matthew Henry and the Henry family.