We would like to express a big thank you to the previous editor and present director of the Biblical Research Institute: Elias Brasil de Souza. Elias Brasil de Souza is an outstanding Old Testament scholar and has contributed various insightful articles to Reflections. What is particularly noteworthy is the fact that he continued this demanding task as editor of Reflections for one more year, even after he was elected as new director of the Biblical Research Institute in October 2016. Despite his full-time work at the BRI, numerous administrative and new leadership responsibilities, as well as speaking appointments and other commitments as an author and scholar he was still able to make Reflections available four times a year. This is an enormous accomplishment for which we are particularly grateful. It was also Elias Brasil de Souza who was instrumental in giving Reflections a more modern and appealing new design. In all this Elias Brasil de Souza has been and continues to be an exemplarily kind and courteous leader who displays a rare virtue in theological learning: a humble spirit that graces his scholarship with authenticity and authority. We are looking forward to seeing more articles from him in future issues of Reflections and wish him all the best and God’s blessing in his important work for the world church.