Dr. Aaron Brody is the Robert and Kathryn Riddell Associate Professor of Bible and Archaeology and the Director of the Bade Museum at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA. Brody holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University, and a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at the University of Georgia, Boston University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before coming to Pacific School of Religion and the Graduate Theological Union in 2002. Brody is also affiliated with the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology group at UC Berkeley, and the joint GTU/UCB program in Jewish Studies.

Brody's fieldwork has been conducted primarily at Bronze and Iron Age sites on the Mediterranean coast of Israel. He has participated in projects in the Negev and Akko Plain and with the Ohlone-Muwekma at sites in northern California. His primary research interests include archaeological interpretations of the society, religion, and economy of ancient Canaan, Phoenicia, and Israel; archaeology and the study of religions; "race" and ethnicity in the biblical world; and maritime/underwater archaeology. He has held research posts at both the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, in Jerusalem, and the American Center for Oriental Research, in Amman. Recently his research and publications have focused on household archaeology, metallurgy, and interregional trade at Tell en-Nasbeh, the ancient site that forms the principal holdings of the Bade Museum at Pacific School of Religion.

Annette Schellenberg is Associate Professor of Old Testament at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS) and a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU)
Research interests: Old Testament anthropology (reflections on humans and humanity); Wisdom literature; Interrelations between the Old Testament world and the cultures and religions of its broader Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian context; Reception History of Old Testament texts (especially in music, for example Schütz, Händel); Old Testament controversies on theological questions.

Author of: Erkenntnis als Problem: Qohelet und die alttestamentliche Diskussion um das menschliche Erkennen (OBO 188), Freiburg/Göttingen: Universitätsverlag/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2002 (dissertation); Der Mensch, das Bild Gottes? Zum Gedanken einer Sonderstellung des Menschen im Alten Testament und in weiteren altorientalischen Quellen (AThANT 101), Zürich: TVZ 2011 (habilitation).

Russian and Soviet history, history of Soviet Jews, comparative nationalism.
Author, most recently, of The Jewish Century (2004)