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 studied eastern Roman cities during the Late Antique period at the University of Thessaly, and she is now writing her doctoral thesis on early Christian catechesis and baptism in Asia Minor at the same university. She works at the Orthodox Academy of Crete as a scientific associate and is the founder of the academic journal After Constantine. She takes particular interest in early Christian naming practices, baptismal rituals, baptism and gender, infant and adult baptism, and catechism.