**Ephraim Meir**

Ephraim Meir is Professor emeritus of modern Jewish Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. His publications are in Jewish philosophy and dialogical theology. He is President of the International Rosenzweig Society. From 2009 to 2017, he was the Levinas guest Professor for Jewish Dialogue Studies and Interreligious Theology at the Academy of World Religions, University of Hamburg. From August to December 2018, he was a research fellow in the workshop on religion and violence at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton. In 2021, he participated in the research group on Gandhi and nonviolence led by Wolfgang Palaver at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study.

#### **Ed Noort**

Ed Noort is Professor emeritus of the Hebrew Bible at the Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is interested in the archaeology of the Southern Levant, historiography and reception history, the book of Joshua and violence, and theologies of the Hebrew Bible. He has published widely on these fields. He served as Foreign Secretary of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and as Vice President of the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities. He was Fellow-in-Residence at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton (2003, 2018) and at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (2021).
