Marc Zvi Brettler, a member of the American Academy for Jewish Research, is the Bernice and Morton Lerner Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Duke University. He is author of numerous books and articles, including How to Read the Jewish Bible and The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (with Amy-Jill Levine). Brettler is co-editor of The Jewish Study Bible and The Jewish Annotated New Testament, and he co-founded TheTorah.com, which is dedicated to making academic biblical scholarship available to the wider public.