About the Authors

Michael L. Brown , Ph.D., is founder and president of FIRE School of Ministry and has served as a visiting or adjunct professor at seven leading seminaries. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University and is the bestselling author of more than thirty books, including commentaries on Jeremiah and Job and the five-volume series, ANSWERING JEWISH OBJECTIONS TO JESUS . He has contributed to major scholarly reference works, including The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion and the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament . He hosts the live, daily radio and TV program The Line of Fire and has debated Jewish rabbis, gay activists and agnostic scholars on major university campuses. His website (www.askdrbrown.org ) has more than 650,000 online followers.

Craig S. Keener (Ph.D., Duke University) is F. M. and Ada Thompson professor of biblical studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is the author of 25 books, five of which have won awards in Christianity Today . More than a million copies of his books are in circulation; the most popular is The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament , which provides cultural background on each passage of the New Testament. Craig is also the New Testament editor for the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, which won the International Book Award for Christianity and, in the Christian Book Awards, Bible of the year. Craig is editor of the Bulletin for Biblical Research and in 2018 is vice-president of the Evangelical Theological Society. Craig’s wife, Dr. Médine Moussounga Keener, was a refugee in her home country of Congo; their story appears in Impossible Love: The True Story of an African Civil War, Miracles and Hope against All Odds (Chosen, 2016). His blog site is www.craigkeener.com .