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Anthony J. Saldarini (“Babatha’s Story”), professor in the department of theology at Boston College, has written extensively on Judaism in the Greco-Roman period and is a book review editor for our sister publication, Bible Review.

Tal Ilan (“How Women Differed”) has taught history at the Rothberg School for Overseas Students at Hebrew University in Jerusalem since 1990 and is author of Mine and Yours Are Hers: Retrieving Women’s History from Rabbinic Literature (Brill, 1997).

Currently a fellow in Byzantine studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., Jodi Magness (“Illuminating Byzantine Jerusalem”) is researching a book on the archaeology of the early Islamic settlement in Palestine. Associate professor of archaeology at Tufts University, she is author of Jerusalem Ceramic Chronology: ca. 200–800 C.E. and “Qumran: Not a Country Villa,” BAR, November/December 1996.

Frank Moore Cross (“The Missing Link”) has written more than 200 scholarly articles during his 35 years as the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, from which he retired in 1992. Co-author Esther Eshel teaches at Hebrew University. She is also the former associate curator for Semitic Epigraphy in the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem.

Anthony J. Saldarini (“Babatha’s Story”), professor in the department of theology at Boston College, has written extensively on Judaism in the Greco-Roman period and is a book review editor for our sister publication, Bible Review. Tal Ilan (“How Women Differed”) has taught history at the Rothberg School for Overseas Students at Hebrew University in Jerusalem since 1990 and is author of Mine and Yours Are Hers: Retrieving Women’s History from Rabbinic Literature (Brill, 1997). Currently a fellow in Byzantine studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., Jodi Magness (“Illuminating Byzantine Jerusalem”) is researching a book on the archaeology of […]