About the Author

Alan D. Crown, Born 1932; 1966 PhD; since 1985 Head of the Department of Semitic Studies, University of Sydney; 1990-97 Professor (Personal Chair) at the University of Sydney; since 1997 Emeritus Professor of the University of Sydney; Honorary Life Member and founder member of the Societe d'Etudes Samaritaines; Senior Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies.Reinhard Pummer, Born 1938; 1967-2004 Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada; currently Professor Emeritus, Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.