Lynn R. Huber is the Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Huber completed a BA in philosophy at Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho, and an MDiv and PhD at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her first two books, "Like a Bride Adorned": Reading Metaphor in John's Apocalypse (2007) and Thinking and Seeing with Women in Revelation (2013), explore Revelation's use of gendered imagery and the ways the book invites interpreters to see along with these images.
Gail R. O'Day (1954-2018) was professor of New Testament and preaching and dean of Wake Forest School of Divinity in 2010 to 2018. In 1987-2010 she taught at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, where she was also an associate dean for seven years. O'Day's research focused on the Gospel of John and the book of Revelation. The author of several books, O'Day was also editor of Journal of Biblical Literature in 1999-2006 and general editor of the Society of Biblical Literature book series, Early Christianity and Its Literature, in 2009 to 2014. She was an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.