Louis H. Feldman (“Financing the Colosseum”) is the Abraham Wouk Family Professor of Classics and Literature at Yeshiva University, in New York. He is the author, most recently, of Josephus’s Interpretation of the Bible (Univ. of California Press) and Flavius Josephus, Judean Antiquities 1–4: Translation and Commentary (Brill). He has published more than 140 articles during a long career.
Hanan Eshel, head of the Archaeological Institute at Bar-Ilan University, in Israel, codirected excavations at Qumran, near where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. He contributed “The Pools of Sepphoris,”BAR 26:04, and coauthored, with John Strugnell, “It’s Elementary,”BR 17:03.
Coauthor Jodi Magness is associate professor of classical and Near Eastern archaeology at Tufts University and has participated in 20 different excavations in Israel and Greece. In 1998 she coedited Hesed ve-Emet, Studies in Honor of Ernest S. Frerichs (Brown Judaic Studies); her monograph, Jerusalem Ceramic Chronology circa 200–800 C.E., appeared in 1993.
Third coauthor Eli Shenhav is an archaeologist with the Jewish National Fund and codirects the excavation at Shuni, near Caesarea Maritima.
Joanne Besonen (“The Yattir Mosaic: A Visual Journey to Christ”) is a Ph.D. candidate in archaeology at Boston University focusing on the Roman and early Byzantine periods, with a specialization in mosaics. A 1998 BAR Dig Scholarship enabled her to participate in the first of her two seasons at Khirbet Yattir, from which much of the material for her article was drawn.
Meir Lubetski (“King Hezekiah’s Seal Revisited”) is professor of modern languages and literature at Baruch College, in New York. He received a Ph.D. in Judaic studies from New York University and holds a master’s degree in television from Brooklyn College. He edited Boundaries of the Ancient World: A Festschrift in Honor of Cyrus H. Gordon (Sheffield, 1998) and guest edited an issue of Biblical Archaeologist (March 1996) devoted to Gordon.
Louis H. Feldman (“Financing the Colosseum”) is the Abraham Wouk Family Professor of Classics and Literature at Yeshiva University, in New York. He is the author, most recently, of Josephus’s Interpretation of the Bible (Univ. of California Press) and Flavius Josephus, Judean Antiquities 1–4: Translation and Commentary (Brill). He has published more than 140 articles during a long career. Hanan Eshel, head of the Archaeological Institute at Bar-Ilan University, in Israel, codirected excavations at Qumran, near where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. He contributed “The Pools of Sepphoris,” BAR 26:04, and coauthored, with John Strugnell, “It’s Elementary,” BR […]
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