Staff
John D. Meade
Executive Director and Member of the Editorial Committee
John is Professor of Old Testament and Codirector of the Text & Canon Institute at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, MO. He leads doctoral seminars in Septuagint, Syriac Language, Old Testament Literature and Theology, and Biblical Theology. In his current capacity, he supervises the Hexapla Institute’s Database Project and its Fellowship. He also serves on the Editorial Committee of the new series: Origen’s Hexapla: A Critical Edition of the Extant Fragments, for which he edited its first volume: A Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments of Job 22–42 (Peeters 2020).
Michael Léger
Project Manager
Michael is a doctoral fellow at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He holds a Master of Arts in Biblical and Theological Studies from Phoenix Seminary. His current research is centered on Syro-Hexapla manuscripts.
Lukas Jorgensen
Database Management
Lukas Jorgensen is a software engineer in the fintech industry and currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife, Carrie, and their five children. He holds a B.A. in Biblical and Theological Studies from Bethel University and an M.Div. in Biblical and Theological Studies from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In their spare time, Lukas and his family enjoy spending time with their local church, the great outdoors, and BJJ.
Editorial Committee
Peter Gentry
Member of the Editorial Committee
Peter is Senior Professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Co-Founder of the Hexapla Institute. He has served on the faculty of Toronto Baptist Seminary and Bible College and taught at the University of Toronto, Heritage Theological Seminary, and Tyndale Seminary. In addition to numerous articles on the text of the Old Testament, the Septuagint, and the Hexapla, he recently published a critical edition of Ecclesiastes for the Göttingen Septuaginta (Vandenhoek & Ruprecht 2019) and Text History of the Greek Ecclesiastes (Vandenhoek & Ruprecht 2022). He also serves on the Editorial Committee of the new series: Origen’s Hexapla: A Critical Edition of the Extant Fragments.
Alison Salvesen
Member of the Editorial Committee
Alison is Polonsky Fellow in Early Judaism and Christianity at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and Professor of Early Judaism and Christianity at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. She has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2025. She was main editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint (2021), and has published articles on the Septuagint and the later Jewish Greek versions, the Targums, the Peshitta, and Jerome’s iuxta Hebraeos translation. She serves on the Editorial Committee of the series Origen’s Hexapla: A Critical Edition of the Extant Fragments.
Bas ter Haar Romeny
Member of the Editorial Committee
Bas is Professor of Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a Director of the Peshitta Institute, responsible for the first scholarly edition of the Syriac version of the Hebrew Bible and its annotated English translation, The Bible of Edessa. His research on the text history and reception of the Greek and Syriac Bibles is also reflected in a range of studies on early Christian exegesis in Greek, Syriac, and Armenian. These explore, among other topics, their engagement with the Septuagint, the Peshitta, later Jewish versions, and ad hoc renderings of “the Hebrew” and “the Syrian”. He also serves on the Editorial Committee of the new series Origen’s Hexapla: A Critical Edition of the Extant Fragments.