Martin Rumscheidtis an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada and retired professor of historical theology at the University of Windsor, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Charles University, Prague. He is the translator of Act and Being (1996)in Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, English edition, and cotranslator with the late Barbara Rumscheidt of Soelle"s Against the Wind (1999) and The Silent Cry. Luise Schottroff taught New Testament and feminist theology at the University of Kassel, Germany, and was the author of numerous books and articles in New Testament and theology, including (with Silvia Schroer and Marie-Theres Wacker) Feminist Interpretation: The Bible in Women's Perspective (1998, 978-0-8006- 2999-1) and The Parables of Jesus: A Feminist Approach (2005, 978- 0-8006-3699-9). Silvia Schroer is Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Berne, Switzerland. Marie-Theres Wacker is Professor of Biblical Theology, University of Cologne, Germany.