Dr. Rabbi Michael C. Hilton is Senior Lecturer at Leo Baeck College, London; Scholar in Residence at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London; and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of The Gospels and Rabbinic Judaism: A Study Guide (with Father Gordian Marshall OP); of The Christian Effect on Jewish Life; and of Bar Mitzvah: A History.