Felicity Harley-McGowan is an art historian whose work centers on the origins and development of Christian iconography within the visual culture of Roman late antiquity. She has held research fellowships at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and the British School at Rome; and before coming to Yale was the Gerry Higgins Lecturer in Medieval Art History at the University of Melbourne. Felicity has a strong interest in the receptions of ancient art, including the histories of collecting, and objects inspire her teaching practice as well as research. Her publications have been focused on portable objects, including engraved gems, graffiti and amulets, and on iconographic traditions including depictions of suicide, the Passion, and the Salvator Mundi. Her ongoing research focus is the representation of violence, and she is currently preparing a book on the earliest images of crucifixion (ca. 200-600 AD).

Hindy Najman is the Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford.  She is also the director and founder of the Centre for the Study of the Bible.
Her research interests encompass Composition and Author Function; Construction and Imitation of Biblical Figures; Practices of Pseudepigraphy and Pseudonymous Attribution; Revelation, Divine Encounter and Prophecy; Idealized Sage and Perfectionism; Philology and Philological Practices; Diaspora and Exile; Authority and Tradition; Allegorical Interpretation and Midrash; Destruction and Recovery; Collection and Canon; the History of Biblical Interpretation; and Scholarly Practices of Reading the Bible and Biblical Traditions. She has written on the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Rabbinic Literature and Pseudepigrapha.  Her publications include Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future: An Analysis of 4 Ezra,Past Renewals: Interpretive Authority, Renewed Revelation and the Quest for Perfection, Seconding Sinai: The Development of Mosaic Discourse in Second Temple Judaism, and a recent essay entitled “Ethical Reading: The Transformation of Text and Self.” She is currently completing a new book entitled: Reading Practices and the Vitality of Scripture (Oxford University Press).

Jacqueline Vayntrub is an Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale University in the Divinity School with appointments in Religious Studies and Judaic Studies. She was educated at the University of Chicago, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and UCLA. She is the author of Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms (Routledge, 2019) and numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Harvard Theological Review, Journal of Biblical Literature, Vetus Testamentum, and Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, as well as in edited collections. She is an editor of the Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies (T&T Clark), Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible (Brill), Metatron, a new peer-reviewed open-access journal, and associate editor of the International Critical Commentary (T&T Clark). She also runs Renewed Philology, an international working group of scholars in biblical studies whose work reflects critically on the intellectual frameworks brought to bear in philological practice.