Risto Uro, editor
Risto Uro is Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies and chair of the BA programme in theology and religious studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is Life Member of Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge. His research covers such areas as the Synoptic Gospels, the Nag Hammadi Library, and the social history of early Christianity. More recently, Uro has pioneered the development of ritual approaches to biblical studies. His particular interest is in cognitive theories of ritual. He led an international research project entitled ‘Ritual and the Emergence of Early Christian Religion: A Socio-Cognitive Analysis’ (2013–2017). His most recent monograph is Ritual and Christian Beginnings: A Socio-Cognitive Analysis (2016).

Juliette J. Day, editor
Juliette J. Day is Docent and University Lecturer in Church History in the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Senior Research Fellow in Early Christian Liturgy at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, UK. Her research focuses on early Christian liturgy, especially that of Jerusalem/Palestine in late antiquity, and on the interpretation of ancient and contemporary liturgical texts. Significant publications include: The Baptismal Liturgy of Jerusalem (2007); Reading the Liturgy (2014), Early Roman Liturgy to 600 (edited with Marcus Vinzent, 2014) and A Guide to the Study of Liturgy and Worship (edited with Benjamin Gordon-Taylor, 2013).

Rikard Roitto, editor
Rikard Roitto is Docent and University Lecturer of Biblical Studies, New Testament, at Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden. In his research, he integrates historical-critical methods with social, psychological, and cognitive sciences to understand early Christian texts and communities. His research interests include social identity, norms, rituals of penance and forgiveness, conflict resolution, and baptism in early Christianity. He has written several articles on ritual practices of reproof, repentance, penance, intercession for forgiveness, and reintegration of deviant group members in early Christianity.

Richard E. DeMaris, editor
Richard E. DeMaris is Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Valparaiso University, USA, and has served as the Catholic Biblical Association Visiting Professor to the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He is a research associate of the Nordic Project on Ritual and the Emergence of Early Christian Religion and was a staff member of the Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia, Greece, in the 1990s. His publications on ritual include Early Christian Ritual Life (edited with Jason Lamoreaux and Steven Muir, 2018), and The New Testament in Its Ritual World (2008).