Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler is the Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies at Brandeis University. He contributed to all volumes of the My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series (winner of the National Jewish Book Award) and to My People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries; Who by Fire, Who by Water Un'taneh Tokef; All These Vows Kol Nidre; May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism Yizkor and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism Ashamnu and Al Chet (all Jewish Lights). He is coeditor of The Jewish Annotated New Testament