Stanley M. Wagner is Rabbi Emeritus of the BHM-BJ Congregation in Denver, Colorado; Professor Emeritus at the University of Denver; Founding Director of its Center for Judaic Studies; and Founding Director of the Mizel Museum in Denver.

He wrote, edited, or co-edited four volumes, A Piece of My Mind, Traditions of the American Jew, Great Confrontations in Jewish History, and Great Schisms in Jewish History, and was General Editor of a six-volume series entitled Christian and Jewish Traditions in the 20th Century. Professor Wagner received six degrees of higher learning from Yeshiva University, including a doctorate in Jewish History. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Renee.

Israel Drazin is the author of ten books, seven of which are on Targum Onkelos. He was the first scholar to recognize that the Targum took hundreds of items from the Tannaitic Midrashim, edited around 400 CE, and even incorporated many words found in these Midrashim in his translation. This discovery allowed him to date the Targum Onkelos to around 400 CE, a period much later than was widely accepted, because of the Targum’s reliance on these Midrashim. Dr. Drazin received a number of rabbinic ordinations, and has earned a BA in theology, an MEd in psychology, an MA in Hebrew literature, a law degree, and a PhD in Aramaic literature. He resides in Boca Raton and Jerusalem with his wife, Dina.