Nbbc, Ruth/Song of Songs/Esther

JOSEPH COLESON is professor emeritus of Old Testament at Nazarene Theological Seminary. He received his B.A. from Indiana Wesleyan University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University. He has served as coeditor of Kardia, the journal of Western Evangelical Seminary; a member of the translation team of the New Living Translation; and a member of Eighth Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies. SARAH B. C. DERCK is associate professor of Old Testament at Houghton College and is ordained in the Church of the Nazarene. She has earned degrees in biblical studies from Indiana Wesleyan University, Nazarene Theological Seminary, and Nazarene Theological College/University of Manchester in England. ELAINE BERNIUS is professor of biblical studies and ancient languages at Indiana Wesleyan University. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.Phil. in Hebraic and cognate studies (with a focus on comparative Semitic linguistics) from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. She is also an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene.