Naomi Harris Rosenblatt (“Portraits”) has been teaching biblical stories to U.S. senators, journalists and others for more than 20 years. She wrote Wrestling with Angels: What Genesis Teaches Us About Our Spiritual Identity, Sexuality, and Personal Relationships (Delta, 1995).

A specialist in economics and archaeology, Michael Hudson (“Proclaim Liberty”) is a research associate in Babylonian economic development at the Peabody Museum at Harvard and the president of his own company, the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends.