K. C. Hanson received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School (now University) and taught Old Testament and New Testament in several small colleges, seminaries, and universities. A leading authority in social-scientific studies of the Bible, he served as senior editor for biblical studies at Fortress Press (1998-2005) prior to taking his present position as editor in chief at Wipf and Stock Publishers (2005-)
Martin Dibelius (1883-1947) was Professor of New Testament at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and one of the most important biblical scholars of the twentieth century. Among his many publications in English are From Tradition to Gospel (1934), The Sermon on the Mount (1940), Paul (1953), and The Pastoral Epistles (Hermeneia; Fortress Press, 1972).