Peter Atkins is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Old Testament and Hebrew Bible at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author of The Animalising Affliction of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4: Reading Across the Human-Animal Boundary (Bloomsbury, 2023). His current research project aims to read the book of Isaiah in light of contemporary rewilding theory.

Beth A. Berkowitz is Ingeborg Rennert Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion at Barnard College. She is the author of three books including Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is co-editor of Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation (Routledge, 2017) and has published articles in various journals. Her area of specialization is classical rabbinic literature, and her interests include critical animal studies, Jewish difference, and Bible reception history. 

David Carr is a Professor of Hebrew Bible at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Building on earlier research, his current project, tentatively titled Unbinding Creation: Genesis, Indigenous Voices, and Revisioning Our Lifeworld, examines how Genesis 1-11 can be reread as an account of how we humans and our animals have all become caught up in interlocking systems of domestication-like domination.

Sébastien Doane is a biblical interpretation professor at Université Laval (Québec). He is the author of Reading the Bible amid the Environmental Crisis Interdisciplinary Insights to Ecological Hermeneutics (Lexington 2024). He is co-chair of the SBL The Bible and Animal studies unit and editor of the new Routledge The Bible and Ecology series.

Jacob Evers is an independent scholar of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament in the Pacific Northwest. His research and writing has focused on Isaiah 1-12 and ecological hermeneutics. He is an ordained minister in the Foursquare church, and teaches at a university associated with the denomination (Life Pacific University).

Dong Hyeon Jeong is the Assistant Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. As a Korean who grew up in the Philippines and currently working/residing in the US, Dong Hyeon finds postcoloniality, intersectionality, liminality, and other theoretical fluidities as starting point(s) of his worldview and research. His current research delves into the material world of the New Testament from the perspectives of New Materialism and race and ethnicity.

Brian Fiu Kolia is a second-generation Australian-born Samoan. He hails from the Samoan villages of Sili, Satapuala, Faleaseela and Tufutafoe. He is a lecturer in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Malua Theological College in Samoa, while also serving as an adjunct lecturer at Trinity Theological College, Naarm (Melbourne) Australia. He holds a PhD from the University of Divinity, in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia. More importantly, he is a husband to Tanaria and a father to Elichai.

Suzanna Millar is a lecturer in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author of Genre and Openness in Proverbs 10:1-22:16 (SBL, 2020) and has a forthcoming monograph titled Animals, Power, and Intersectionality in the Books of Samuel.

Megan R. Remington holds a PhD from UCLA in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures with an emphasis in Second Temple Judaism. Her dissertation focused on nonhuman animals in the Danielic corpora and concepts of foreignness in Jewish communities. She has published articles on embodiment in revelatory experiences, as well as sexual violence in the Animal Apocalypse, and has two forthcoming essays in the Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters and the Oxford Handbook of the Bible and Animals. Her current research engages the intersections of animal studies, diversity in ancient Judaism, and apocalyptic trends.

Brian James Tipton is an adjunct faculty member in New Testament and Early Christianity at Drew Theological School as well as the founder and Connectional Teaching Pastor of Connectional Teaching Ministries in Southern California. He holds a PhD from Drew Theological School, where his dissertation focused on animality and the Gospel of Mark, exploring its various non-human creatures in metaphor, metonymy, simile, and, simply, animals-as-animals. His academic work engages the Bible and ecology and focuses on the intersection of animality and race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, and childhood, among other categories.

A. Rahel Wells is a Professor of Old Testament at Andrews University in Michigan. She completed graduate degrees in religion and biology, and a PhD in Biblical and Theological Studies from Wheaton College. Rahel's current research focus areas include animals in the Old Testament, metaphor, bioethics, and composition of the Torah.​ Along with various conference presentations on these topics, her recent publications include several journal articles and book chapters, and three book projects in progress. A book she co-edited and contributed to, Exploring the Composition of the Pentatuech, was published in 2020 by Eisenbrauns. 

Garrett Evanagelical Theological Seminary

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