Gabriele Boccaccini is professor of Second Temple Judaism and early rabbinic literature at the University of Michigan. He is also the founding director of the Enoch Seminar, a forum of international specialists in early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam affiliated with the Society of Biblical Literature. In 2019, he was awarded knighthood by the president of Italy in recognition of his contributions to Italian culture in the world. Giovanni Ibba is adjunct professor of Biblical Hebrew atCentral Italy Theological Seminary in Florence and adjunctprofessor of history of religions at the University ofSiena, Italy.
