James D. Tabor’s undergraduate and M.A. degrees were in Biblical Languages (Pepperdine University), and his Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago in the area of Biblical Studies, with an emphasis on Christian Origins and ancient Judaism, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, John the Baptist, Jesus, James the brother of Jesus, and Paul. As an accomplished published author, his current research involves Judaism in the time of Jesus, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other ancient documents related to understanding the historical Jesus. His new book, The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity was published by Simon & Schuster in April, 2006. Tabor serves as chief editor of a new translation of the Bible, The Transparent English Bible, due to be published in 2008.

Charles R. Pellegrino is a world renowned polymath and author of several books relating to archaeology, including Return to Sodom and Gomorrah, Ghosts of the Titanic, Unearthing Atlantis, Ghosts of Vesuvius and the New York Times best seller Her Name, Titanic, which became a basis for James Cameron’s film Titanic. He has authored eighteen books of fiction and nonfiction all together. Charles Pellegrino has been known to work simultaneously in entomology, forensic physics, paleogenetics, preliminary design of advanced rocket systems, astrobiology, and marine archaeology. His dinosaur-cloning formula inspired Michael Crichton's bestselling novel Jurassic Park. Presently, he has co-authored the book The Jesus Family Tomb (Harper Collins, 2007) with documentary director Simcha Jacobovici.

Andrey Feuerverger holds a B.Sc. in Honours Mathematics from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, he is a Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Toronto. He has broad research interests primarily, but not exclusively, in statistical theory and applications, and has authored approximately fifty refereed scientific publications. He has also taught a wide variety of courses in statistics at every imaginable level. He is currently Coordinator of Graduate Studies for Statistics at University of Toronto. He is proud of the fact that his Erdos number is 3 (earned in two different ways) and that he holds one pending U.S. Patent. He is an elected Fellow of the I.M.S.