Alan F. Segal, Professor of Religion and Ingeborg Rennert Professor of Jewish Studies, Barnard College.
His publications include "Two Powers in Heaven" (Brill), "Deus Ex Machina: Computers in the Humanities" (Penn), "Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World" (Harvard University Press), "The Other Judaisms of Late Antiquity" (Scholars Press) for the Brown University Judaica Series and "Paul the Convert: The Apostasy and Apostolate of Saul of Tarsus". In 2004 Professor Segal published "Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religions" (Doubleday). Professor Segal has received numerous awards, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship.