Israel Knohl has a doctorate in Bible from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is the Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor of Bible. Israel served as a visiting professor at University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University and the University of Chicago Divinity School. His numerous publications include: The Sanctuary of Silence (Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1994), which won the Z. Shkopp Prize for Biblical Studies; The Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls (University of California Press, 2000), which was published in eight languages; and The Divine Symphony: The Bible's Many Voices (JPS, 2003). In May 2009, Shalom hartman Institute and Continuum will publish his latest book, Messiahs and Resurrection in the Gabriel Revelation. Israel Knohl's Hebrew University page - lists publications Israel Knohl's Wikipedia page