Richard Coggins is one of the most respected Old Testament scholars writing today and was based in the department of Theology at Kings College, London. He is a past President of the Society for Old Testament Study and co-author with J.L. Houlden of the ground-breaking Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (1992). He is the author of numerous works including Introducing the Old Testament (2001). Jin H. Han is Professor of Biblical Studies at New York Theological Seminary, New York, where he has taught Old Testament and biblical Hebrew since 1992. He is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and teaches biblical Hebrew at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church. He is the author of Daniel's Spiel: Apocalyptic Literacy in the Book of Daniel (2007).