Ralph W. Klein is Christ Seminary-Seminex Professor of Old Testament at The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He is the author of Textual Criticism of the Old Testament: The Septuagint after Qumran (1974); Israel in Exile: A Theological Interpretation (1979); 1 Samuel (Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 10, 1983); Ezekiel: The Prophet and His Message (1988); and 1 Chronicles (Hermeneia; Fortress Press, 2006). Paul D. Hanson, editor, is the Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of numerous works including The Dawn of Apocalyptic and The People Called.
