A fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Israel Knohl has a doctorate in Bible from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is the Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor of Bible. 
Israel served as a visiting professor at University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University and the University of Chicago Divinity School.
His numerous publications include: The Sanctuary of Silence (Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1994), which won the Z. Shkopp Prize for Biblical Studies; The Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls (University of California Press, 2000), which was published in eight languages; and The Divine Symphony: The Bible's Many Voices (JPS, 2003). Shalom Hartman Institute and Continuum will published his latest book, Messiahs and Resurrection in the Gabriel Revelation in 2009.
Israel Knohl's Hebrew University page - lists his publications.
Israel Knohl's Wikipedia page.