Authors
Mark Chancey (“How Jewish was Sepphoris?”) is an assistant professor of religious studies at Southern Methodist University. He holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University and has participated in three seasons of excavations with the Sepphoris Regional Project.
A seasoned director of numerous digs in Sepphoris and elsewhere, Eric M. Meyers (“How Jewish Was Sepphoris?” and “The Pools of Sepphoris”) is the Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Judaic Studies at Duke University, where he has taught since 1969. He also served as editor in chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East.
Tsvika Tsuk (“Bringing Water to Sepphoris”), of the Israel National Parks Authority, has recently completed a final report (in Hebrew) on his exploration of the Sepphoris water system.
Hanan Eshel (“The Pools of Sepphoris”) is head of the Archaeological Institute at Bar-Ilan University. As an excavator at Qumran, he was one of four scholars interviewed in “The Enigma of Qumran,” BAR 24:01; he is also the author of “Jerusalem No More,” BAR 23:06.
“How Reliable Is Exodus?” asks Alan R. Millard, the Rankin Reader in Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages at the University of Liverpool. Millard is co-editor of the Dictionary of the Ancient Near East and has excavated in Syria (Arpad and Qadesh), Jordan (Petra) and Iraq (Nimrud). Before taking up his post at Liverpool in 1970, he worked in the Western Asiatic Antiquities department of the British Museum.