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Mary C. Boys is the Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, also serves as adjunct faculty at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Teachers College, Columbia University. Her publications include Biblical Interpretation in Religious Education (1980), Educating in Faith: Maps and Visions (1989), Jewish–Christian Dialogue: One Woman's Experience (1997), and Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding (2000). Boys received her master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University in a joint program with Union Theological Seminary, and has done advanced study at the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research in Jerusalem, Israel.

Philip A. Cunningham is Adjunct Professor of Theology at Boston College, specializes in biblical studies, religious education, and theologies of Christian–Jewish relations. His recent publications include A Story of Shalom: The Calling of Christians and Jews by a Covenanting God (2001) and Sharing the Scriptures (2003). He has also edited Pondering the Passion: What's at Stake for Christians and Jews? (2004). He serves on the advisory committee on Catholic–Jewish Relations for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and has been a co-convener of the Catholic Biblical Association of America's (CBA's) continuing seminar on Biblical Issues in Christian– Jewish Relations.

Arnold Eisen is Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and formerly Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and Religion at Stanford University. Eisen's expertise focuses on the modern transformations of Jewish religious beliefs and practice. His publications include Taking Hold of Torah: Jewish Commitment and Community in America (2000), The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America (written with Stephen Cohen, 2000), Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community (1999), and Galut: Modern Jewish Reflection on Homelessness and Homecoming (1986).

Peter Geffen is the Founder of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School in New York City and of KIVUNIM, New Directions, a year program for college freshmen based in Israel, while studying in eight countries of the Jewish historical and contemporary world. Geffen has worked with new day schools across North America in applying Heschel's philosophy to Jewish education. He was chief consultant to [End Page 163] the Heritage Civilization and the Jews DVD–Rom project of the Charles H. Revson Foundation, directing its work in educational applications, teacher training, and the development of a PBS web site.

Gianluca Gannini is Professor of Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II. Among his books in Italian are Ethics and Religion in Abraham Joshua Heschel (2001), To Discover "existenz" with Levinas and Ricoeur (2003), Emil L. Fackenheim: Jewish Philosophy between Hegelism and New Thought (2004), Shoah and the Problem of Faith in R.L. Rubenstein (2004), Philosophy, Religion and Jewish Philosophy (2004), and Moses, Monotheism and the Genesis of "Politischen" (2006). He also has translated into Italian: Moses Hess, Rom und Jerusalem. Die Nationalitätsfrage (2002).

Arthur Green is the Irving R. Brudnick Professor of Jewish Theology and Mysticism at Hebrew College and Rector of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School, and also Emeritus Professor of Jewish Thought at Brandeis University. Green has written on aspects of Jewish mysticism, spirituality, and theology from biblical times to the present. His Tormented Master: the Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav (1978) has become a classic and his other books include Keter: the Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism (1997), and The Language of Truth: Teachings from the Sefat Emet (1998). His most recent work, A Guide to the Zohar, is published by Stanford University Press. Green's Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical Theology recently appeared in a revised second edition (2003).

Moshe Idel is Professor at the Institute of Jewish Studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a worthy successor of Gershom as one of the world experts on Jewish mysticism. His publications include Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah (1988), Kabbalah: New Perspectives (1990), Messianic Mystics (2000), Ascension on High in Jewish Mysticism: Pillars, Lines, Ladders (2005), Kabbalah and Eros (2005), and numerous articles.

Edward K. Kaplan is Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities at Brandeis University and was the founding chair of the...

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