Steven D. Fraade, Ph.D. (1980), The University of Pennsylvania, is the Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism in the Religious Studies Department and the Judaic Studies Program, Yale University. Aharon Shemesh, Ph.D. (1984), Bar-Ilan University, is Associate Professor in the Department of Talmud, Bar-Ilan University, and a Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem. Ruth A. Clements, Th.D. (1997), Harvard University Divinity School, is Chief of Publications at the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.