Dr Dwight Swanson is a Senior Research Fellow in Biblical Studies, Nazarene Theological College. He is also Co-Director, Manchester Centre for the Study of Christianity and Islam. Dr Swanson’s research interests have moved to the Bible and Islam/Qur’an. He is currently working with the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies in Oxford on the project ‘Reading the Bible in the Context of Islam’. He also contributed a number of dictionary articles to The Global Wesleyan Dictionary of Theology (Beacon Hill Press, 2012), Theologisches Worterbuch zu den Qumrantexten (Kohlhammer, 2011) and The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Walter de Gruyter and Co.)..