Serge Bloch is an award-winning French artist and author. For twenty years he has also served as the artistic director of Bayard Jeunesse. Bloch's beloved illustrations have appeared in more than three hundred books and in major newspapers and magazines in France and the United States.

Frédéric Boyer is a French writer and translator versed in biblical interpretation. The author of more than thirty books, Boyer is the publisher of Editions Bayard, and co-directed this new translation of the Old Testament, drawing on the skills of experts in biblical exegesis, specialists of the biblical languages, and those of contemporary authors.

Cole Swensen is an American poet, translator, editor, and professor. She is the author of fifteen books of poetry and the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN USA Award for Literary Translation, and the Iowa Poetry Prise. She teaches poetry and literature at Brown University in Rhode Island.