Hassan Saeda, to your initial trust and good will, we owe our gratitude. We are sorry that you have been ill used by those who should have known better.
Margaret, we cannot thank you enough for being there for us, in every respect, every step of the way.
We are grateful to many people for their time and support in answering many questions and providing much important information: Dr Margaret Barker, Richard Barker, Tim Blades, Dr JCB, Prof. George Brooke, Prof. Philip Davies, HKF, Prof. Robert Haywood, MH, Charles Merchant, John Stuart Reid, Prof. John F A Sawyer, Dr Rowan Williams and Prof. Roger Webb. Any errors theological or academic are our own.
Much gratitude goes also to our Jordanian friends: Dr Ziad al-Saad, Prof. Khasawneh, Dr. Amer al-Fayez, Colonel al-Hewayan, General Manaseer, Captain Hussein, General Manaseer and Ra’ad Tawalbeh, with all of whom we look forward to celebrating a happy conclusion for the codices.
Our especial thanks goes to Jonathan Lloyd and Lucia Rae at Curtis Brown for their enduring belief in the project and for their very extraordinary support. Our thanks goes as well to John Tintera at The Osprey Group and Jeff Scott of Platypus PR for their much appreciated moral support and professionalism. And for those whose very valued friendship has enabled us to succeed in our endeavours: Hilary Baker, JCB, Linda Browne, John Gibson-Forty, Phyllis Gray, Brian Matthew, Ted Suhaka, Count Peter Schoenborn. And most especially: Susan Leather, Dorothy Perks, Julian and Hege Usborne and Maisie Usborne, Chris and Caroline Woodard and Ralph Whittaker and Clare Lawrence.
And for much appreciated friendship, kindness and support, our thanks goes to: Jacob Arback, Martin Asser, Neil and Lesley Beverley, Tim and Clair Beardson, Honor Blair, Nigel Blair, Paul Bridger, Paul Broadhurst and Gabrielle, Gillian Brooke, Andrew Brown at Intertek, Marion Campbell, Anna Cox, Stephen and Miranda Crouch, Andre Durand, Christopher Eddy, Michael W Edmonds, Alon Farago, Anne and Lucy Fisher, Sarah Gray, John and Dinah Griffey, Stephan Hoeller, Lee Hoffman, Gillian Humphreys, Mike Ives, Martin Kipp, Simon and Caroline Knowles, Charles Law, Mike and Freddie Lawrence, Liam and Lily from Digiprint, Alex Lesseps, Anne Lindsay, Charles Maxwell, Dr. Hugh and Hermione Montgomery, John and Elizabeth Moody, Julian Mounter, George Parnell, Robert Pigott, Claire Palmer, Philip Playfer, Reverend Valerie Plumb, Alison Powell, Prue from Marshfield, St. Edward’s School Oxford (and in particular, Philip Jolley, Lewis Faulkner, Mark Taylor and Pasha Francisco ‘Miss P’), Azim and Zeenat Suleiman, Joe and Helen Taylor, Robert Watts and Gary White; and to all of our many followers on the Jordan Codices Facebook page for their support and enthusiasm.
We are grateful to all those who have kindly allowed us to quote published and unpublished writings in this book. Every effort has been made to secure permissions to reproduce material protected by copyright. The authors and publishers will be pleased to make good, in future editions, any omissions brought to their attention.