John Sawyer taught Bible, Jewish Studies, and Hebrew at Glasgow, Newcastle and Lancaster Universities and now lives in the northeast of England, where he is honorary professor in the Theology and Religion Department at Durham University. His publications include Prophecy and the Biblical Prophets (Oxford University Press, 1993), The Fifth Gospel: Isaiah in the History of Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and Sacred Texts and Sacred Meanings (2011).  He is currently working on Isaiah through the Centuries for the Wiley-Blackwell Bible Commentary Series, of which he is coeditor.