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We express our appreciation to Tyndale Seminary (President Gary Nelson, Vice-President Janet Clark, and Vice-President Randy Henderson) for funding three research trips for Professor Beverley over the last several years in relation to his ongoing research on Islam. We also thank Dave Collison, a close friend of Professor Beverley, who helped cover costs on one research trip in February and March 2014. These forays have sometimes included interviews or contact by phone and email (Robert Hoyland, Kevin Van Bladel, Herbert Berg, David Cook and Dan Brubaker, for example) and also face-to-face contact with other great scholars of Islam and related fields, including Hans Küng (Germany), Patricia Crone (USA), Lutz Richter-Bernburg (Germany), Frank Peters (USA), Efraim Karsh (England), Josef van Ess (Germany), Christopher Tyerman (England), Michael Cook (USA), Andrew Rippin (Canada), Gerald Hawting (England) and Angelika Neuwirth (Germany), among others.

Professor Neuwirth initiated a visit for Professor Beverley to her Corpus Coranicum project at the Free University of Berlin. The Corpus Coranicum is probably the most significant academic project on the Qur’an in history. Thanks to Professor Neuwirth and to three researchers at the Coranicum (Yousef Kouriyhe, Tobias Jocham and Laura Hinrichsen) for their assistance.

Professor Beverley is grateful to informed friends who helped him on various debatable issues in Islamic studies and the study of religion. Among them are Jay Smith, Wafik Wahba, Sam Solomon, Andy Bannister, Eileen Barker, Bob Morris, Gordon Nickel, Tom Holland, Tony Costa, Keith Small, Rick Love, Don Wiebe, Chad Hillier, Robert Spencer, J. Gordon Melton, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Keith Small and Massimo Introvigne. Professor Beverley is also grateful to two Muslim friends, Muhammad Iqbal Al-Nadvi and Mohammed Atieque (leaders in Canada’s Islamic community), for many hours of conversation.

We also thank President Harry Gardner and the Divinity College of Acadia University for its generous support of Professor Evans’ research, which has made possible travel to scholarly conferences as well as to archaeological excavations in Israel. Professor Evans is grateful to several scholars who over the years have served as dialogue partners and collaborators in various scholarly projects. These include Dale Allison of Princeton Theological Seminary, Bruce Chilton of Bard College, John and Adela Collins of Yale Divinity School, Jimmy Dunn of Durham University, Shimon Gibson of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Helmut Koester of Harvard Divinity School, Joel Marcus of Duke University, Scot McKnight of Northern Seminary and Armand Puig i Tàrrech of the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia in Barcelona. Heartfelt gratitude is also extended to wonderful colleagues of Professor Evans who in recent years have passed from this life. This includes Martin Hengel of Tübingen University, Bruce Metzger of Princeton Theological Seminary, Ben Meyer of McMaster University, and Graham Stanton of Cambridge University. The world of biblical studies and scholarship concerned with the historical Jesus and Christian origins is challenging and rewarding, but above all it is collegial.