John J. Gallagher
Dr. John J. Gallagher is a biblical scholar with research interests in the history, reception, adaptation, and exegesis of biblical and apocryphal texts in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. His teaching is interdisciplinary and spans Divinity, History, Literature, and Linguistics. John has held teaching and research positions at the University of St Andrews, University College Dublin, and the University of Oxford, and has taught several courses for Medievalists.net and the Orthodox Academy of Crete. His interests centre on the biblical canon, textual formation, and how biblical and apocryphal texts evolve in the course of their cultural and textual transmission. His recent edition of the Old English Heptateuch and his forthcoming edition of the Gothic Bible explore these matters in detail.
He is affiliated with the University of St Andrews and the Orthodox Academy of Crete, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a Member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Additionally, he is the Assistant Editor of the Fontes Anglo-Saxonici database – the largest and most complete source database for Latin and vernacular literature from early medieval England, which includes the Apocrypha.
Zoe Tsiami
Zoe is a PhD candidate in early Christian history. She holds a Master's degree in late antique history and has presented and written several papers on this era. She currently collaborates with the Orthodox Academy of Crete on publishing a scientific journal called "After Constantine. Stories from the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Era." She has edited two academic books on religious and historical/archaeological studies and has taught several workshops in Greece regarding early Christian history.