Dr. John Chadwick was a classical scholar who served as an editor on the
Oxford Latin Dictionary and who is internationally renowned for his contribution to the decipherment of the ancient Minoan script, Linear B. He was also a fellow of the
British Academy and of
Downing College, Cambridge. By the time of his retirement in 1984, he had become the fourth (and last)
Perceval Maitland Laurence Reader in Classics at Cambridge. With Michael Ventris he published
Documents in Mycenaean Greek (1956) and
"Evidence for Greek Dialect in the Mycenaean Archives" in
The Journal of Hellenic Studies (1956). He also wrote
The Decipherment of Linear B (1958) and
The Mycenaean World (1976). For the Swedenborg Society he translated six of Swedenborg’s works, including
The True Christian Religion and
The Last Judgment.
Stephen McNeilly is the director of the Swedenborg Society and series editor of the
Journal of the Swedenborg Society and the
Swedenborg Archive imprint. For the Society he has published numerous volumes, including
An Angel Speaks with Homero Aridjis and J. M. G. Le Clézio;
Philosophy, Literature, Mysticism: An Anthology of Essays with Czeslaw Milosz et al.;
Swimming to Heaven: the Lost Rivers of London with Iain Sinclair;
Blake’s London: The Topographic Sublime with Iain Sinclair; and
Several Clouds Colliding with Brian Catling and Iain Sinclair. He is also a visiting lecturer in art, philosophy and critical theory at several universities in the United Kingdom.