Kevin Madigan is the Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University. Carolyn Osiek is the Charles Fischer Professor of New Testament (retired), Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University.
<b David L. Balch</b is Professor of New Testament at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including <i Families in the New Testament World: Households and House Churches</i ; <i Early Christian Families in Context</i ; and <i Homosexuality, Science, and the "Plain Sense" of Scripture</i .