Frances Flannery-Dailey received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, and is Assistant Professor of Religion at Hendrix College in Conway, Arizona. She teaches courses in Bible, Religion and Culture and Judaism. Her main area of research is apocalypticism in early Judaism (300 B.C.E.-200 C.E.), and she is currently writing a book for Brill Publishers entitled Dreamers, Mystics and Heavenly Priests: Dreams in Second Temple Judaism.

Rachel Wagner was educated at Wake Forest University and the University of Iowa. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. At Southwestern, she teaches comparative courses in Islam, the Problem of Evil, Religion and Film, and Religion and Literature, incorporating materials from many different religious traditions. Her primary training is in Western Religions and biblical studies, and her dissertation is based on William Blake's epic poem Jerusalem.