Avishai Bar-Asher is the Sol Rosenblum Chair in Jewish History and an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he also serves as head of the Jewish Studies program. Bar-Asher's research on kabbalah has appeared in various journals and edited volumes internationally, including Harvard Theological Review and Jewish Quarterly Review.

Jeremy Phillip Brown is the Jordan H. Kapson Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at University of Notre Dame, where he also serves as a fellow of the Medieval Institute and Nanovic Institute for European Studies. The recipient of numerous additional fellowships, Brown's scholarship on medieval kabbalah has been featured in the Journal of Religion, History of Religions, and Jewish Studies Quarterly, among several other publications.