James M. Robinson, consultant for this collection, was instrumental in obtaining the cooperation of an international team of scholars. Robinson is the founding director emeritus of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity and Arthur J. Letts Professor of Religion and director of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity at the Claremont Graduate School and cochair of the International Q Project. He is the author of Trajectories Through Early Christianity, A New Quest of the Historical Jesus, The Gospel of Jesus, and The Secrets of Judas. He is widely known for his pioneering work on the Sayings Gospel Q and the Nag Hammadi codices, his contribution as the permanent secretary of UNESCO’s International Committee for the Nag Hammadi codices, and his research and work as the general editor of The Nag Hammadi Library in English.