David Garland (Ph.D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is professor of Christian Scriptures and associate dean of academic affairs at George W. Truett Seminary, Baylor University. He is the New Testament editor for the revised Expositor's Bible Commentary and the author of various books and commentaries, including Mark and Colossians/Philemon in the NIV Application Commentary, and the article on Mark in the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary. He and his wife, Diana, reside in Waco, Texas. Walter L. Liefeld is distinguished professor emeritus of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is the author of The Expositor's Bible Commentary on Luke. Richard N. Longenecker is professor emeritus of New Testament, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. He received his PhD degree at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and did postdoctoral study of the University of Basel, Switzerland, and Cambridge University, England. Tremper Longman III (Ph.D., Yale University) is the Robert H. Gundry professor of Biblical Studies and the chair of the Religious Studies department at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA. He is author of many articles and books including An Introduction to the Old Testament (with Raymond Dillard), How to Read the Psalms, Old Testament Commentary Survey, Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation, and God is a Warrior (with Daniel Reid). He is the Old Testament editor for the revised Expositor's Bible Commentary and has written a number of commentaries including Daniel in the NIV Application Commentary series (Zondervan) and Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs in the New International Commentary on the Old Testament (Eerdmans). Tremper and his wife Alice reside in Santa Barbara, CA and have three grown sons.