Laurie Maffly-Kipp is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She edited the Penguin Classics edition American Scriptures and can talk about the role of the King James Bible in American religious history.

Steven M. Tipton is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Sociology of Religion at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. He researches American religion and politics, and the sociology of morality.

Executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, a lobbying group dedicated to promoting Bible-based values in the nation’s laws.

David Lyle Jeffrey is Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities at Baylor University and author of The King James Bible and the World It Made, which was published in November 2011.

Michael Josephson is founder and president of the Josephson Institute of Ethics and CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition.

Hans J. Hillerbrand teaches religion at Duke University. His specialty is the Reformation, and he has written about the King James Bible.

Nathan O. Hatch is president of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., and one of the most influential historians of religion in America. His books include, as author, The Democratization of American Christianity. Contact Donna K. Gung.

Katharine Doob Sakenfeld is a past president of the Society of Biblical Literature and the William Albright Eisenberger Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary. She served as a member of the NRSV translation committee.

Marshall W. Fishwick (1923-2006) was professor emeritus of interdisciplinary studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. He wrote on popular culture and religion, including the book Great Awakenings: Popular Religion and Popular Culture (Haworth Press, 1995).