Takamitsu Muraoka, Ph.D. (1970) in Hebrew, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor of Hebrew at Leiden University. His publications include Emphatic Words and Structures in Biblical Hebrew (Leiden/Jerusalem, 1985) and (with P. Joüon) A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew (Rome 1991, 1993).
John F. Elwolde, Ph.D. (1988) in Linguistics, Hull, is an associate member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. His publications in the fields of Hebrew language and the Dead Sea Scrolls include translations of A. Sáenz-Badillos's A history of the Hebrew Language (Cambridge, 1993) and M. Pérez Fernández's An Introductory Grammar of Rabbinic Hebrew (Brill, 1997).