Gary Vikan (“Made by Human Hands”) is director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore and an adjunct professor of art at Johns Hopkins University. His article on the amulets used by Byzantine pilgrims to the Holy Land (“Don’t Leave Home Without Them,”) appeared in BAR 23:04. A specialist in Byzantine art, Vikan has also written and lectured on “Pilgrimage to Graceland: The Cult of St. Elvis.”
Nachman Ben-Yehuda (“Where Masada’s Defenders Fell”) is the author of The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel (Univ. of Wisconsin, 1995). But the sociology professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem has also served as a government advisor on drug abuse policy and as a member of national committees on police violence, cults and corruption in public service.
Joseph Zias (“Whose Bones?”) knows his bones. The former curator of archaeology and anthropology at the Israel Antiquities Authority has lectured at medical schools across the U.S. His articles on ancient skeletal remains have appeared in periodicals ranging from The Lancet, the journal of the British Medical Association, to Biblical Archaeologist, and he was the subject of a brief profile in BAR (Fired: Bone Expert Takes the Fall).
Ze’ev Meshel (“Governments-in-Exile”) has been on the faculty of the Institute for Archaeology at Tel Aviv University since 1975 and has worked with the Institute for Nature Conservation Research since 1967. His excavation at Kuntillet ‘Ajrud formed the basis for the article “Did Yahweh Have a Consort?”BAR 04:03.
Gary Vikan (“Made by Human Hands”) is director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore and an adjunct professor of art at Johns Hopkins University. His article on the amulets used by Byzantine pilgrims to the Holy Land (“Don’t Leave Home Without Them,”) appeared in BAR 23:04. A specialist in Byzantine art, Vikan has also written and lectured on “Pilgrimage to Graceland: The Cult of St. Elvis.” Nachman Ben-Yehuda (“Where Masada’s Defenders Fell”) is the author of The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel (Univ. of Wisconsin, 1995). But the sociology professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem […]
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