The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism

Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies in the Religious Studies Department of the College of Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Alongside numerous articles he has published The Priestly Gift in Mishnah, A Study of Tractate Terumot (Scholars Press, 1981) and four volumes of translation of and commentary on Talmudic treatises. He is editor of New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism. Volume VI. The Literature of Early Rabbinic Judaism: Issues in Talmudic Redaction and Interpretation (University Press of America, 1998). William Scott Green is Professor of Religion, Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Judaic Studies, and Dean of the College at the University of Rochester. He is author or editor of nine books on ancient Judaism and also has written broadly on religion and higher education. He founded the Department of Religion and Classics at Rochester and is educational director of the University of Rochester/Israel Antiquities Authority archaeological program in Israel. Jacob Neusner, Ph.D., Columbia University, is Distinguised Research Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida in Tampa, and Professor of Religion at Bard Collegge, Annandale-Hudson, N.Y. He has published more than 725 books and is Editor of South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism, USF Text and Studies, and other monograph series at Scholars Press.