Richard Bauckham is a biblical scholar, theologian, and poet. Born in 1946, he grew up in north London and studied at the University of Cambridge, where his BA and PhD were both in history. He taught historical and contemporary theology at the University of Manchester for fifteen years and then was Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, for fifteen years. He now lives in Cambridge and frequently visits St. Andrews. Among his many books, the best known are probably Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (2006, expanded edition 2017), God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament (1998), The Theology of the Book of Revelation (1993), The Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of Creation (2010), Jesus: A Very Short Introduction (2011), and Who Is God? Key Moments of Biblical Revelation (2020). Never able to confine his interests to a narrow field, he has also written about the theology of Jürgen Moltmann, the Gospel of John, the letters of James, Jude and 2 Peter, eschatology, women in the Gospels, early Judaism, apocryphal Christian literature, and Old Testament pseudepigrapha, among other topics. He has written some poetry throughout his adult life, but in the last decade it has become an important part of his life and writing. He is an Anglican layman who sometimes preaches. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has traveled widely, giving invited lectures in the US, Japan, Ethiopia, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, France, South Korea, Taiwan, Canada, and other countries. Some of his heroes are Francis of Assisi, Vincent van Gogh, Helen Waddell, Jürgen Moltmann, Siegfried Sassoon, and the characters in Tove Jansson’s Moomin books. He enjoys gardens, historic places of all kinds, cakes, novels, good drama, and not-too-strenuous walks. After the events described in this book, he still has many ongoing writing projects. He hopes, when he gets older, to have a cat. There is further information on his website: www.richardbauckham.co.uk.