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Bruce Chilton is Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College where he is also Chaplain of the College and executive director of the Institute of Advanced Theology positions he has held since 1987. He received his B.A. from Bard College; his M.Div. from General Theological Seminary, Columbia University; and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He was ordained to the diaconate and the priesthood. His books include Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography; God in Strength; Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography; Judaic Approaches to the Gospels; Revelation; Trading Places; Jesus' Prayer and Jesus' Eucharist; Forging a Common Future; and Jesus' Baptism and Jesus' Healing. He is editor in chief of the Bulletin for Biblical Research; founding editor of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament, and Studying the Historical Jesus series (E. J. Brill and Eerdman's). His fellowships and awards include: with Jacob Neusner, Choice magazine award, best academic book (1998); Evangelical Scholars Fellowship, A. Whitney Griswold Center (Yale University); Heinrich Hertz Stiftung, Theological Development Fund of the Episcopal Church, National Conference of Christians and Jews.