Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron (“Light at the End of the Tunnel”) is the director of excavations for the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Jerusalem 3000 project. Since 1994 he has excavated at Robinson’s Arch (at the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount), the City of David and the Dung Gate. He is also a senior lecturer at Haifa University. His most recent article for BAR, “God Knows Their Names,” (BAR 22:02), was based on his excavations in the Mamilla neighborhood of Jerusalem, just outside Jaffa Gate.
Co-author Eli Shukron received his archaeological training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and assisted Reich at the Mamilla dig. Shukron conducted the rescue excavation at Pisgat Zeev, north of Jerusalem, where he discovered a Second Temple period farmhouse and a ritual bath.
Leonard H. Lesko (“Pharaoh’s Workers: How the Israelites Lived in Egypt”) is the Wilbour Professor and chairman of the department of Egyptology at Brown University. He is the editor of Pharaoh’s Workers: The Villagers of Deir el-Medina (Cornell Univ. Press, 1994) and co-editor of Exodus: The Egyptian Evidence (Eisenbrauns, 1997), distributed by the Biblical Archaeology Society.
His co-author Barbara S. Lesko is administrative coordinator and research assistant at Brown University’s department of Egyptology. Her books include Women’s Earliest Records: From Ancient Egypt and Western Asia (Scholars Press, 1989) and The Remarkable Women of Ancient Egypt(Scribe Publications, 1996).
Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron (“Light at the End of the Tunnel”) is the director of excavations for the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Jerusalem 3000 project. Since 1994 he has excavated at Robinson’s Arch (at the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount), the City of David and the Dung Gate. He is also a senior lecturer at Haifa University. His most recent article for BAR, “God Knows Their Names,” (BAR 22:02), was based on his excavations in the Mamilla neighborhood of Jerusalem, just outside Jaffa Gate. Co-author Eli Shukron received his archaeological training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and […]
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