Paul Birch Petersen was born in Denmark in 1952 and has, since his youth, worked as a minister in Denmark. A diligent writer, he has written several books in his mother tongue. Studying first at the University of Copenhagen, he recently defended his doctoral dissertation on the prayers of Daniel for the Old Testament Department at Andrews Theological Seminary in Berrien Springs, Michigan. Paul Birch Petersen is married, has two boys, and presently serves as the president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Denmark.

Shabbat Shalom*: In the context of the Jewish faith, who is God and how does one understand Him?

A close and respectful reading of the biblical text is bound up with immense information about its historical background.

Medical doctor and surgeon and biblical scholar graduate from Harvard University and the University of Michigan, Dr. William Shea brings to the world of biblical studies the acute intelligence of the diagnostician in the emergency room and the broad information of the historian and of the linguist proficient in several Semitic languages.

Faithfulness to the biblical text, to its integrality, to its integrity—a new-old reading of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Born in 1914 at Obernai (Alsace in France) and died in Jerusalem in 1986, André Néher is considered one of the most important Jewish thinkers of contemporary Judaism. A Rabbi and a professor of Hebrew language and literature, André Néher taught at the University of Strasbourg and in Israel (mainly at the University of Tel Aviv in Jerusalem).