Acknowledgments
The Academic Community at St. Athanasius Academy is chaired by Fr. Jack N. Sparks, Dean, and includes Frs. Richard Ballew, Jon E. Braun, Michel Najim, John Finley, Polycarp Whitcomb, and Paul Goetz. Also included are Jerry Cripe, Howard Lange, Dr. David Lewis, Carol McFarland, Christina Tassos, and Alan Wallerstedt.
A number of clergy and lay scholars worked on the study material for one or more books of the New Testament and on the other supplemental sections, including Bishop KALLISTOS Ware and Frs. David Anderson, James Bernstein, David Barr, William Caldaroni, Marc Dunaway, John Elias, Antony Gabriel, George Gray, Peter Kreta, Michael Laffoon, John Morris, Constantine Nasr, Paul O’Callaghan, Jonah Paffhausen, Gregory Rogers, and Gordon Walker. Lay scholars Dr. Apostolos Athanassakis, Dr. George Cronk and Paul DeMerritt provided valuable input. Special thanks goes to Dr. Petros Vasiliadis for his work on the initial draft, and later editing by him and his colleagues at the University of Thessalonica. Additional help was supplied by the American Bible Society.
Providing help with the Old Testament text, notes and supplemental materials were: Bishops BASIL, JOSEPH, and KALLISTOS; together with Frs. Philip Armstrong, Richard Ballew, Michael Barclay, Jon Braun, William Caldaroni, Ross Caldwell, Joseph Corrigan, Thomas O’Dea, Dale Dickerson, John Elias, John Finley, Titus Fulcher, Sam Gantt, Michael Gillis, Isaiah Gillette, Peter E. Gillquist, George Gray, Daniel Griffith, David Hester, Benjamin Henderson, Don Hock, John Kalantzis, Nathan Kroll, Stephen Lilley, John Morris, Michel Najim, Patrick O’Grady, John Peck, Eugen Pentiuc, Theodore Petrides, John R. Probish, Gabriel Rochelle, Gregory Rogers, Patrick Henry Reardon, John Reeves, Robert Sanford, David Sedor, Jack N. Sparks, Allyne Smith, Gordon Walker, Bartholomew Wojcik, Christopher Wojcik, Thaddeus Wojcik, Stefan Zencuch; Deacons John Chryssavgis, Stephen Holley, Polycarp Whitcomb, Moishe Zorea, Steve Ackley; and lay scholars Peter Bouras, Renie Carr, Andrew Copeland, Shaun Daugherty, Dr. David Ford, Dr. Mary Ford, Dr. George S. Gabriel, Anastasia Goetz, Paul Goetz, Denise Greaves, Beryl Wells Hamilton, Margaret Hock, Mickey Hodges, Joel Kalvesmaki, Mark Kern, John Lamberes, Dr. David Lewis, Theron Mathis, Martin McGinty, James Miller, Samuel G. Miller, Tatiana Miller, Newman Nahas, Dr. Michel Quenot, Reader Cyrl Shartz, Dr. Donald Sheehan, Gregory Gray Smith, John Stamps, Dr. Matthew Steenberg, Nancy Tentzeras, Nicholas Tentzeras and Gary Yee.
Special thanks to Fr. Robert Sanford, of Thomas Nelson Publishers, for his careful guidance, and to Katherine Hyde for her extensive and thorough copy editing. Computer entry for the final manuscript was done by Shirley Dillon and Carolyn Tanguay, who both deserve sincere gratitude.
Undergirding all these efforts were more than three hundred individuals, churches, and organizations who served as benefactors for this historic project. Their gifts were contributed to underwrite the costs of biblical and patristic research, organizational meetings and manuscript preparation. Thanks are due to all these donors including Mr. Sam Moore, retired chairman of Thomas Nelson, Inc., who established a generous matching gift program which motivated the great breadth of financial support for this effort. It is in the memory of his mother, Marie Ziady, that the New Testament edition was published.