Biblical Studies
Ekaputra Tupamahu is an assistant professor of New Testament at Portland Seminary and George Fox University. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2019. He earned a master's degree and an MDiv from Asia Pacific Theological Seminary, and master's degrees from the Claremont School of Theology and Vanderbilt University. He has a broad range of academic interests, including the politics of language, race/ethnic theory, postcolonial studies, immigration studies, critical study of religion, and global Christianity (particularly Pentecostal/Charismatic movement). All these interests inform and influence the way he approaches the texts of the New Testament and the history of early Christian movement(s). See his Portland Seminary and George Fox University profile at the links above.
Gideon Wongi Park is Assistant Professor of Religion at Belmont University and holds a doctor of philosophy from Vanderbilt University, a master of sacred theology from Yale Divinity School, a master of divinity from Westminster Seminary California, and a bachelor of science from Missouri Baptist University. His pedagogy and research foregrounds critical thinking, reading, and writing in the academic study of religion, especially around race and ethnicity. See his Belmont University profile at the links above.
Susannah Heschel is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish and Protestant thought during the 19th and 20th centuries, including the history of biblical scholarship, Jewish scholarship on Islam, and the history of anti-Semitism. Her numerous publications include Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press), which won a National Jewish Book Award, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton University Press), and Jüdischer Islam: Islam und Deutsch-Jüdische Selbstbestimmung (Mathes und Seitz). Currently she is a Guggenheim Fellow and is writing a book on the history of European Jewish scholarship on Islam. See her Dartmouth College profile at the links above.