David G. Hunter is the Margaret O'Brien Flatley Chair of Catholic Theology at Boston College. A past president of the North American Patristics Society, he is the author of several monographs and coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies.

Jonathan P. Yates is professor of historical theology at Villanova University. In addition to coediting a two-volume handbook entitled The Bible in Christian North Africa, he served as editor of the international peer-reviewed academic journal Augustinian Studies for over ten years.