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<p><strong>Gordon J. Wenham</strong> is lecturer in Old Testament at Trinity College, Bristol. He was formerly professor of Old Testament at the University of Gloucestershire and is well known for his commentaries on Genesis, Leviticus and Numbers, as well as other studies in the Pentateuch.</p>
<p>J. Alec Motyer was a renowned Old Testament pastor and scholar. With extensive experience in parish ministry, he was also principal of Trinity College in Bristol, England, and was well known as a Bible expositor. His books include <em>The Prophecyof Isaiah</em>, and he was the Old Testament editor of The Bible Speaks Today series.</p>
<p>D. A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.</p>
<p>R. T. France has taught at London Bible College and was principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, from 1989 to 1995. He has also been the rector of seven Anglican parishes. He is the author of <em>Matthew</em> in the Tyndale New Testament Commentary series, <em>The Evidence for Jesus, Matthew: Evangelist and Teacher</em>, two volumes of <em>Mark</em> in both the Doubleday Bible Commentary and the New International Greek Testament Commentary, and <em>Women in the Church's Ministry: A Test Case for Biblical Hermeneutics.</em></p>
