Ian Young is chair of the department of Hebrew, biblical and Jewish studies at the University of Sydney. His research and teaching interests focus on the language and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible.

Avril Alba is a professor in the deparment of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish studies at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the Holocaust, including post-Holocaust Jewish theology. She wrote the article “Testifying to the Holocaust” for the Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal.

Philip Pullman is an author and noted atheist. His books include the His Dark Materials trilogy and Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. Contact through his agent Caradoc King.

Uto Meier is a professor of religious education at Katholische Universitat Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Germany. His research focuses on Catholic religious education.

Philippe Chenaux is a professor of church history and theology at Pontificia Universita Lateranense in Rome. His research interests include the history of the papacy, the history of the Vatican and the history of modern Catholic thought.

Katherine Southwood is a tutorial fellow in theology and religion at St. John’s College in London. Her research focuses on the Hebrew Bible, with an emphasis on Israelite marriage practices and religious identity. She is the author of Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9-10: An Anthropological Approach and a number of articles on Jewish marriage […]

David Fincham is the director of theology and ethics at St. Mary’s University College in London. He is an expert on Catholic education and his publications include PSHCE in Catholic secondary schools: Stakeholders’ views and “Pastoral care in Catholic Schools,” which was published in The Pastoral Review.

Stephen Bullivant directs the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society at St. Mary’s University in London, where he also teaches the theology and sociology of religion. He previously served as co-director of the international Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network.

Chaya Halberstam is a professor of religious studies at King’s University College in London, Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on ancient Judaism, with an emphasis on rabbinic Judaism, and the Hebrew Bible. She is the author of Law and Truth in Biblical and Rabbinic Literature.