Introducing the Organization, the Principals behind this website, and our chief Contributors and Correspondents

Professor Duane L. Christensen

Professor Christensen received his doctorate from Harvard in 1975 and for fifteen years served as Professor of Old Testament Languages and Literature at the American Baptist Seminary of the West and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is currently Professor of Biblical Studies and Near Eastern History at William Carey International University of Pasadena. He is the author of numerous articles and books, some of which are for sale here. You may contact him at Bibal Corp.

Professor Christensen's contribution to this site includes overall guidance and, in particular, the prosodic analysis pages of our New Methodologies in Biblical Research section, especially including our Psalms Project.

Major associates who have their own websites

Mr. John H. Wheeler

John H. Wheeler (who also writes under the pen-name Johanan Rakkav) is the founder and director of King David's Harp, Inc., now based in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. He is a graduate of Ambassador University (1981) and an associate of Suzanne Haik-Vantoura's Fondation Roi David (later, Institution Roi David) since 1982. He was the editor of the English translation of Haik-Vantoura's book, The Music of the Bible Revealed, (BIBAL Press/King David's Harp, Inc., 1991). Currently he is a part-time research assistant for the Editorial Department of the Living Church of God. Besides being a student of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures (in particular of their accent systems) and of the relationship between biblical theology and other disciplines, he is a Celtic harper, keyboardist, singer and songwriter.

Mr. Wheeler's uniquely qualified contributions to this site center upon a close look at the musical structure of the Hebrew Scriptures, as indicated in their traditional cantillation marks. His work may be found on this site in the the musical analysis pages of our New Methodologies in Biblical Research section, especially including our Psalms Project.

His own websites are rakkav.com, where you will find a wealth of information on the Hebrew cantillation system, particularly as reconstructed by Suzanne Haik-Vantoura.

Professor Casper J. Labuschagne

Professor Labuschagne's work on the logotechnical aspects of the psalms (psalms as arithmological compositions) was formerly included in this site, but he now maintains his files on his own site. Please see it for his General Introduction, for his Introductions to the separate Books of the Psalms, and of course for his Analysis of each psalm separately.

Professor Ernest McClain

Author of The Myth of Invariance (1976), The Pythagorean Plato (1978), and Meditations Through the Quran (1981), Professor McClain is a major contributor to Bibalgroup, the yahoogroup related to this site. On his own website, he has been correcting, updating, and extending his analyses of ancient musical theory more deply into its Mesopotamian foundations and extensive development in the Bible and Homeric epic.