LAWRENCE BOADT, C.S.P.

Reverend Lawrence Boadt, C.S.P. is a member of the Paulist Fathers religious order in the Catholic Church, ordained a priest in 1969. He received his doctorate in Scripture Studies and Semitic Languages from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in 1976 and has been teaching Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures, first at Fordham University from 1974-1976, and then at the Washington Theological Union in Washington, D.C. from 1976 to 1997. He is now professor emeritus of Scripture Studies. For twenty years he served as part time editor for the Paulist Press for academic publishing, and from 1997 to 1998 he served as executive vice-president. He is currently the president of the Paulist Press. He has been a member of the Stimulus Board for ten years and serves as its Secretary.

HELGA CRONER

Founder of Stimulus Books in 1977; editor in chief, compiler and co-editor of several Stimulus Books, former president Stimulus Foundation. Administrative and research assistant, translation editor with Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies, Seton Hall University, 1965-1975. Published in "Freiburger Rundbrief", "Emune", "Catholic World". Active in Christian-Jewish dialogue for over thirty years in USA, Switzerland, Germany. Active in publishing business in England and USA, 1939-1977.

RABBI LEON KLENICKI

Rabbi Leon Klenicki worked for twenty-seven years in the Department of Interfaith Affairs of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. He retired in 2000 as the director of the department. During these years, he was heavily involved in interfaith affairs throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America and was ADL's co-liaison to the Vatican. He has also been a regular professor of Jewish Theology at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, New York, and has served on the Stimulus Foundation Board since 1974. He is currently the vice-president of the Board, an editor of Stimulus Books, a prolific author of over a hundred articles and essays on Dialogue issue, and co-editor of the new series, The Word Set Free, a collection of books on the presentation of Judaism in the New Testament.

KEVIN A. LYNCH, C.S.P.

Kevin A. Lynch is currently publisher emeritus of the Paulist Press. He served as publisher and editorial director of the Press for 30 years. In 1974 he became a member of the board of the Stimulus Foundation and cooperated in the conception and publication of a number of books developed by board members. He has been president of the Stimulus Foundation since 1994. He was ordained a Paulist priest in 1953.

DENNIS D. McMANUS

Dennis D. McManus is Associate Director of the Secretariat for the Liturgy at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C. There, he assists in the review of all Latin-to-English translations of liturgical texts for the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He is coordinating editor of Paulist Press' Ancient Christian Writers series, which provides translations of authors from the Patristic period of Latin and Greek religious literature. For the last several years, he has lectured in theology, liturgy and Latin literature for The Catholic University of America and for Drew University, where he serves as Visiting Professor of Medical Humanities. He obtained his B.A. degree from St. Mary's College of California in Classical Languages and Philosophy and was awarded his M.A. in historical ethics from Georgetown University. His doctoral work in patristics was done at Drew University, New Jersey. McManus serves as Vice President of the Grgich Family Foundation of California, and is Visiting Professor of Medieval Latin at Georgetown University.

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