Paul R. House (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the former professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama. He has been a pastor or teacher in churches, Christian colleges, and seminaries for over forty years. He is a past president of the Evangelical Theological Society and an active member of the Society of Biblical Literature. House is the author of several books, including
Zephaniah: A Prophetic Drama; The Unity of the Twelve; Old Testament Theology;
1, 2 Kings (NAC);
Lamentations (WBC);
Daniel (TOTC); and
Bonhoeffer’s Seminary Vision. He was the general editor of the
ESV Concise Study Bible.
Stephen M. Coleman (PhD, The Catholic University of America) is an ordained teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. He holds the Stephen Tong Chair of Reformed Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, where he also serves as the dean of biblical and theological studies and as associate professor of Old Testament and biblical languages. He is the editor in chief of Unio cum Christo: International Journal of Reformed Theology and Life and coeditor of the Westminster Theological Journal.
R. Kent Hughes (DMin, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is senior pastor emeritus of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, and former professor of practical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hughes is also a founder of the Charles Simeon Trust, which conducts expository preaching conferences throughout North America and worldwide. He serves as the series editor for the Preaching the Word commentary series and is the author or coauthor of many books. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Spokane, Washington, and have four children and an ever-increasing number of grandchildren.
