David G. Firth (PhD, University of Pretoria) is tutor in Old Testament and academic dean at Trinity College, in Bristol, United Kingdom. He is the author and editor of numerous books and commentaries, including Joshua (Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary) and 1 & 2 Samuel (Apollos Old Testament Commentary).

Brittany N. Melton (PhD, University of Cambridge) is assistant professor of biblical and theological studies at Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida. She is the author of Where is God in the Megilloth? and coeditor of Reading Lamentations Intertextually and Reading Esther Intertextually.