Emanuel Tov is the J.L. Magnes Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he has taught since 1974. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in biblical studies from the Hebrew University in 1973. Since 1990 he holds the J.L. Magnes chair, from which he retired in 2009. He received the Humboldt Research Prize, the Emet Prize in Biblical Research and the Israel Prize. He specializes in the textual criticism of Hebrew and Greek Scripture as well as in the Qumran Scrolls. He was the editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project. He has written 17 books, edited more than fifty, and published more than 330 research papers. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger FBA (PhD Cantab., 1995, Habilitation Paris-Sorbonne, 2002) is Professor of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic Manuscript Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris Sciences Lettres, Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford, President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Jordan S. Penkower is Professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan. He is an expert on the transmission of the Hebrew Bible and the Masorah both in manuscripts and printed editions. His research and publications extend to broad aspects of the Bible in Rabbinic Interpretation, as well as Jewish Medieval Biblical Exegesis, especially that of Rashi. In his research on biblical manuscripts, including Torah scrolls, he has visited the leading libraries and collections throughout Europe, Russia, United States, and Israel. Two of the major contributions of his research have been: (a) the importance of medieval Torah scrolls for the history of the transmission of the Pentateuch, and (b) the typological categorization of medieval biblical manuscripts and Torah scrolls according to geographical areas.
Yosef Ofer is a full professor in the Bible Department at Bar-Ilan University. His research areas are biblical manuscripts and the Masora. His book The Masora on Scripture and its Methods was published in 2019 by De Gruyter Publishing (in English) and in 2022 by Magnes Press (in Hebrew). Ofer studied the Babylonian Masora and published a book on it (The Academy of the Hebrew Language and Magnes Press, 2001, in Hebrew). He reconstructed the missing parts of the Aleppo Codex according to various testimonies. He also completed a book on the Masora of Ms. Sassoon 1053. Prof. Ofer was appointed president of the International Organization for Masoretic Studies and vice president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.