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 […]