Authors
Years ago, when Abraham Levy (“Bad Timing”) was the assistant to the commissioner for rebuilding Jerusalem, he suggested selling replicas of ancient artifacts to boost tourism. Since then he has made a business of it, studying the production and trade of ancient artifacts and selling selected replicas.
Margreet Steiner (“It’s Not There: Archaeology Proves a Negative”) covers the world: She has a B.A. in geography, an M.A. in European prehistory and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern archaeology. She has supervised excavations in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. She is currently working with Henk Franken at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands to publish the findings from Kathleen Kenyon’s Jerusalem excavations.
Jane Cahill (“It Is There: The Archaeological Evidence Proves It”) leads a double life. Half the time she is an archaeologist, writing the final report of Yigal Shiloh’s excavations in Area G at the City of David in Jerusalem. But when she is back home in Texas, Cahill is a lawyer, working as a clerk for the U.S. District Court in Houston. Her article, “Royal Rosettes: Fit for a King,” appeared in BAR 23:05.
A professor of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University, Nadav Na’aman (“It Is There: Ancient Texts Prove It”) contributed “Cow Town or Royal Capital? Evidence for Iron Age Jerusalem,” to BAR 23:04. He is the co-editor of From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel (1994).
Ephraim Stern (“Buried Treasure”) is the Bernard M. Lauterman Professor of Biblical Archaeology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has excavated at Masada, Hazor, Ein Gedi and Beersheba and has collaborated with some of the leading lights of Biblical archaeology—Yigael Yadin, Benjamin Mazar and Yohanan Aharoni.