Dr. Samuel L. Adams is the Professor of Old Testament and Director of Community Engagement at Union Presbyterian Seminary. As an ordained minister in the PC(USA), he has served churches in New Haven, Connecticut; Chicago, Illinois; and in Richmond, Virginia. He is also the editor of the journal, Interpretation.

His interests include wisdom literature, wealth and poverty in the biblical world, apocalypticism, and the Bible and film. He has published books on wisdom, death and the afterlife, and the socioeconomic world of the Bible. He is active in a number of community initiatives in Richmond.

Dr. Safwat Marzouk is an Associate Professor of Old Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary. He is an Egyptian Presbyterian whose research interests include thinking theologically about monsters in the Bible, Ancient Near East, and popular culture. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, as well as three books: 1) Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel; 2) Exodus, Joshua, Ezekiel in the Arabic Contemporary Commentary; and, 3) Intercultural Church: A Biblical Vision for an Age of Migration. He is currently working on a commentary for the New Interpretation Series of Westminster John Knox Press: Exodus: A Commentary.

He was ordained as a pastor in 2002 by the Delta Presbytery of the Synod of the Nile (the governing body of the Presbyterian Church in Egypt), and in May 2021 he joined the Wabash Valley Presbytery of PC(USA). As a Christian Egyptian and migrant to the U.S., he interprets the Bible in ways that are interreligiously and interculturally sensitive, seeking God’s shalom and justice for the vulnerable and marginalized.

Rev. Dr. Megan Fullerton Strollo is Assistant Professor of Biblical Languages at Union Presbyterian Seminary. She received her Master of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy in biblical studies degrees from Union Presbyterian Seminary. In 2012 she received the seminary's Patrick D. Miller Award for Excellence in the Study of Scripture.

Her primary research interests include the Megilloth, post-exile literature, wisdom literature, biblical languages, biblical theology, women in the Bible, intertextuality in the Bible, and feminist biblical interpretation. She has published articles and reviews in peer-reviewed journals, and is a contributor in Megilloth Studies: The Shape of Contemporary Scholarship.

As an ordained Baptist minister, Strollo has served in pastoral roles at various churches in Virginia, and enjoys opportunities to bring her research interests to the church and other public forums. When she is not teaching, she enjoys spending time outdoors with her husband and two daughters.