William Arnal is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. His books include Whose Historical Jesus? (co-edited with Michel Desjardins, 1997), Jesus and the Village Scribes (2001) and The Symbolic Jesus: Historical Scholarship, Judaism and the Construction of Contemporary Identity (2005). Willi Braun is Professor of Religion in the Department of History and Classics and Director of the Interdisciplinary Programme of Religious Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He is the author of Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14 (1995), editor of Persuasion and Performance: Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christian Discourses (2005) editor (with Russell T. McCutcheon) of the Guide to the Study of Religion (Cassell, 2000) and editor (With Russell T. McCutcheon) of Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith (2008). Russell T. McCutcheon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Religion and the Domestication of Dissent (2005), The Discipline of Religion: Structure, Meaning, Rhetoric (2003), Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (2001) Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia (1997) and editor (With Russell T. McCutcheon) of Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith (2008).