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Ephraim Stern (“Pagan Yahwism”) is the Moses Bernard Lauterman Family Professor of Palestinian Archaeology at Hebrew University. The editor of The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (Simon & Schuster), Stern is a frequent contributor to BAR.

Uzi Avner (“Sacred Stones in the Desert”) worked for more than 20 years for the Israel Antiquities Authority documenting nearly 1,500 archaeological sites in the Negev and Sinai deserts. Now a Ph.D. candidate at Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology, he and his work were profiled in “Picturing Imageless Deities,” BAR, May/June 1997.

David Jacobson (“When Palestine Meant Israel”) recently earned a second doctorate, in classical archaeology, and is teaching a course on Jews and the classical world at University College London. His newest book, on the Hellenistic tomb paintings of Marisa, is in press.

“Where Was Abraham’s Ur?” asks Alan R. Millard, the Rankin Professor in Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages at the University of Liverpool. Millard is coeditor of the Dictionary of the Ancient Near East and has excavated in Syria, Jordan and Iraq. Before joining the Liverpool faculty in 1970, he worked at the Western Asiatic Antiquities department of the British Museum.

Ephraim Stern (“Pagan Yahwism”) is the Moses Bernard Lauterman Family Professor of Palestinian Archaeology at Hebrew University. The editor of The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (Simon & Schuster), Stern is a frequent contributor to BAR. Uzi Avner (“Sacred Stones in the Desert”) worked for more than 20 years for the Israel Antiquities Authority documenting nearly 1,500 archaeological sites in the Negev and Sinai deserts. Now a Ph.D. candidate at Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology, he and his work were profiled in “Picturing Imageless Deities,” BAR, May/June 1997. David Jacobson (“When Palestine Meant Israel”) recently […]