Director of the excavations of David’s Citadel, in Jerusalem, Hillel Geva (“Searching for Roman Jerusalem”) edited Ancient Jerusalem Revealed (Israel Exploration Society and the Biblical Archaeology Society, 1994). He also excavated, with the late Nahman Avigad, in the city’s Jewish Quarter and is preparing the final reports on those excavations for publication.
Hanan Eshel (“Jerusalem No More”) is senior lecturer of archaeology at Hebrew University and at Bar-Ilan University. He is codirector of excavations at Tel Yatir and has also dug at Ketef Jericho, the Mackuk Cave and Qumran.
Kenneth G. Holum (“Hadrian’s Imperial Tour”) is a professor of history at the University of Maryland and a fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, in Washington, D.C. He has directed the Combined Caesarea Expeditions since 1989 and is co-author of King Herod’s Dream: Caesarea on the Sea (Norton, 1988).
Recipient of the prestigious Jerusalem Prize for Archaeological Research, Gabriel Barkay (“Politics—Not Religious Law—Rules Ultra-Orthodox Demonstrators”) has taught at Tel Aviv University, Jerusalem University College, the University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is best known for his discoveries at Ketef Hinnom, which include First Temple period tombs and the burial field of the Tenth Roman Legion.
A journalist based in Tel Aviv, Dina Shiloh (“Fierce Protest Over Bones”) writes regularly for several U.S., British and Israeli newspapers, including The Jerusalem Post and The San Francisco Chronicle. She also contributes radio reports on Israel to the BBC.
Alan F. Segal (“Electronic Echoes”) is a professor of religion at Columbia University, in New York, and has lectured at Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University. His books include Rebecca’s Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World (Harvard Univ.) and Jews and Arabs: A Teaching Guide (UAHC Press).
Director of the excavations of David’s Citadel, in Jerusalem, Hillel Geva (“Searching for Roman Jerusalem”) edited Ancient Jerusalem Revealed (Israel Exploration Society and the Biblical Archaeology Society, 1994). He also excavated, with the late Nahman Avigad, in the city’s Jewish Quarter and is preparing the final reports on those excavations for publication. Hanan Eshel (“Jerusalem No More”) is senior lecturer of archaeology at Hebrew University and at Bar-Ilan University. He is codirector of excavations at Tel Yatir and has also dug at Ketef Jericho, the Mackuk Cave and Qumran. Kenneth G. Holum (“Hadrian’s Imperial Tour”) is a professor of […]
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