JP Authors

Gary AsperschlagerGuido BaltesDavid N. BivinJosa BivinTodd BolenMagen BroshiRandall ButhStephen C. CarlsonWeston FieldsDavid FlusserAdam FochtJoseph FrankovicJeffrey P. GarcíaZvi GreenhutAnna IamimDavid Instone-BrewerPieter LechnerRobert L. LindseyWilliam LocktonKatia MotzevaR. Steven NotleyMendel NunW. E. NunallayDanielle ParishClifton PayneJakob J. PetuchowskiDavid PileggiJack PoirierDouglas R. PrioreRay PritzDwight A. PryorRonny ReichHalvor RonningSerge RuzerChana SafraiShmuel SafraiZe'ev SafraiRisto SantalaStephen SchmidtGrace SharonFelicia SilcoxWilliam Richard StegnerGloria E. M. SuessJoshua TiltonMarc TurnageLois TverbergHelen TwenaBeth UvalMiriam Feinberg VamoshHuub van de SandtMarvin R. WilsonBrad Young

Articles authored by JP Staff Writers


Gary Asperschlager

Retired Salvation Army officer (pastor)


Lauren Asperschlager

Copy editor for JP’s Life of Yeshua project


Guido Baltes

Lecturer of New Testament Studies at MBS Bible Seminary (Marburg, Germany) and at the department of Theology at the University of Marburg


Gabriel Barkay

Israeli archaeologist and external lecturer at Bar Ilan University and Jerusalem University College


Brian Becker

JP’ webmaster


David N. Bivin

JP’s founder and editor-in-chief


Josa Bivin

Wife of David Bivin


Todd Bolen

Professor of Biblical Studies at The Master’s University in Santa Clarita, CA


Magen Broshi

Former curator of the Shrine of the Book


Randall Buth

Director of the Biblical Language Center and a lecturer at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem


Yitzhak Buxbaum

Former maggid (inspirational speaker), mystic, and author


Stephen C. Carlson

Developer of the Synoptic Problem Website


James H. Charlesworth

Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary


Phil Crossman (Illustrator)


Hanan Eshel

Former professor in the Department of Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University


Weston Fields

Former executive director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation


David Flusser

Former at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Department of Comparative Religion


Adam Focht

Israeli tour guide


Janet Frankovic (Photographer & Illustrator)


Joseph Frankovic


Jeffrey P. García

Associate Professor of New Testament and Second Temple Literature at Nyack College


Zvi Greenhut

Head of the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Artifacts Treatment and Conservation Department


Anna Iamim

A widely published artist specializing in archaeological reconstructions


David Instone-Brewer

Research Fellow and Technical Officer at the Tyndale House in Cambridge


Baruch Brian Kvasnica

Founder and associate professor of the Jerusalem Seminary


Pieter Lechner

Manager of UCLA’s Visualization Portal


Robert Lindsey

Former pastor of Jerusalem’s Narkis Street Congregation


William Lockton

Former vice-principal and assistant chaplain at the Winchester Diocesan Training College from 1910-1936


Liz McLeod (Illustrator)


Katia Motzeva (Translator)


Ken Mullican


Lenore Mullican

Professor Emeritus of Oral Roberts University


Moshe Navon

Lecturer at the Ruhr-Universität-Bochum


R. Steven Notley

Dean of Religious Studies at Pillar College in Newark, New Jersey and Academic Director of the El Araj Excavation Project


Mendel Nun

Former Galilean fisherman, kibbutz member, author and foremost expert on the Sea of Galilee


W. E. Nunnally

Professor of Early Judaism and Christian Origins at Evangel University, and Adjunct Professor of Hebrew Language at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary


Danielle Parish

Pastor and co-founder of Spark Church in Palo Alto


Clifton H. Payne, Jr.


Jakob J. Petuchowski

Former professor of Rabbinics and Jewish Theology at Hebrew Union College


David Pileggi

Rector of Christ Church in the Old City of Jerusalem


Jack Poirier

Chair of Biblical Studies at the Kingswell Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio


Douglas R. Priore


Ray Pritz

Former director of the Bible Society in Israel


Dwight Pryor

Founder of the Center for Judaic-Christian Studies in 1984


Ronny Reich

Former head of the Department of Archaeology of Haifa University in Israel


Halvor Ronning

Former director and founder of the Jerusalem Center for Bible Translation


Serge Ruzer

Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Department of Comparative Religion


Chana Safrai

Former member of the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem


Shmuel Safrai

Former professor of Jewish History of the Mishnaic and Talmudic Period at the Hebrew University


Ze’ev Safrai

Professor emeritus in the Martin Susz Department of Land of Israel Studies at Bar Ilan University in Israel


Risto Santala

Finnish scholar in the fields of Judaism and rabbinic literature


Stephen Schmidt

Editorial Assistant to Jerusalem Perspective magazine in the early 1990s


Grace Sharon


Felicia Silcox

Former schoolteacher and catechist and current writer


W. Richard Stegner

Former professor of New Testament at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois


Gloria E. M. Suess

Former volunteer secretary, editor and artist for the Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem


Joshua N. Tilton

Collaborator on the Life of Yeshua project and a JP staff writer


Marc Turnage

CEO and founder of Biblical Expeditions and BibleX


Lois Tverberg

Author and speaker on Christianity’s Jewish context


Helen Twena (Illustrator)

Artist and illustrator who studied at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem


Beth Uval

Guide at Neot Kedumim, a biblical landscape reserve in Israel


Miriam Feinberg Vamosh

Author and translator of scholarly books and articles living in Israel


Huub van de Sandt

Professor of New Testament Studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands


Kay Wilson (Illustrator)

Peace activist, cartoonist, pianist and tour guide in Israel


Marvin R. Wilson

Retired professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts


Brad Young

Professor of New Testament Studies in the Graduate School of Theology at Oral Roberts University


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