George J. Brooke, Ph.D. (1978), Claremont Graduate School, D.D. (2010), Oxford University, is Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis Emeritus at the University of Manchester. He is the Editor of Brill's series Studies on the Desert of Judah.Renate Smithuis, Ph.D. (2004), University of Manchester, is Lecturer in Medieval Jewish Studies at Manchester University. An expert on Abraham ibn Ezra, she also co-edited with Philip Alexander From Cairo to Manchester: Studies on the Rylands Genizah Fragments(Oxford, 2013).