Trude Dothan (“Cultural Crossroads”) recently received the coveted Israel Prize for archaeology, in recognition for her many years of excavating (at Deir el-Balah, Hazor and Qasile) and teaching (at Hebrew University, Princeton, New York University, Brown University and the University of California at Berkeley). One of the world’s leading authorities on the Philistines, Dothan is the author of The Philistines and Their Material Culture (1982) and, with her husband, Moshe, of People of the Sea (Macmillan, 1992).
Avraham Biran (“Sacred Spaces”) is the director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. Formerly Israel’s Director of Antiquities and Museums, he has held many government positions and has directed numerous excavations, including Anathoth, Ira, Aroer and the ancient synagogue of Yesud Hamaalah.
The Israel Antiquities Authority’s chief archaeological officer for the civil administration of Judea and Samaria, Yitzhak Magen (“Ancient Israel’s Stone Age”) has directed tens of excavations—the most famous of a “replica” of Solomon’s Temple, built by the Samaritans on Mt. Gerizim in the second century B.C. In his article “Martyrius,”BAR 21:05, Magen described the surprisingly luxuriant lifestyle of a Judean desert monastery.
A professor of Biblical history and the director of the Project for the Study of Jewish Names at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, Aaron Demsky (“Discovering A Goddess,”) is a staff member and epigraphist for the excavations at Tell es-Safi, (Philistine Gath).
Trude Dothan (“Cultural Crossroads”) recently received the coveted Israel Prize for archaeology, in recognition for her many years of excavating (at Deir el-Balah, Hazor and Qasile) and teaching (at Hebrew University, Princeton, New York University, Brown University and the University of California at Berkeley). One of the world’s leading authorities on the Philistines, Dothan is the author of The Philistines and Their Material Culture (1982) and, with her husband, Moshe, of People of the Sea (Macmillan, 1992). Avraham Biran (“Sacred Spaces”) is the director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. Formerly […]
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