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Adam Zertal (“Philistine Kin Found in Early Israel”) is chairman of the department of archaeology at Haifa University. He discovered el-Ahwat in 1993 while conducting an archaeological survey tracing the Israelites’ entry into Canaan through the Biblical territory of the tribe of Manasseh (volume 3 of The Survey of the Hill Country of Manasseh from Nahal ‘Iron to Nahal Shechem was published in Hebrew in 1999). In cooperation with the University of Cagliari in Sardinia, Zertal has since opened two related sites, Mount Carmel Site 146 and Tel Assawir, to further study the Northern Sea Peoples, the Shardana and the Sikulu, in ancient Israel.

Joseph Blenkinsopp (“There Was No Gap”) is John A. O’Brien Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of A History of Prophecy in Israel (Westminster John Knox) as well as commentaries on Isaiah 1–39, Ezekiel and Ezra-Nehemiah.

Ephraim Stern (“Yes There Was”) is the Moses Bernard Lauterman Family Professor of Palestinian Archaeology at Hebrew University and the editor of The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Investigations in the Holy Land (Simon & Schuster). An expert on Phoenician material culture, Stern has directed excavations at Tel Mevorakh and Tel Dor, among other sites.

Adam Zertal (“Philistine Kin Found in Early Israel”) is chairman of the department of archaeology at Haifa University. He discovered el-Ahwat in 1993 while conducting an archaeological survey tracing the Israelites’ entry into Canaan through the Biblical territory of the tribe of Manasseh (volume 3 of The Survey of the Hill Country of Manasseh from Nahal ‘Iron to Nahal Shechem was published in Hebrew in 1999). In cooperation with the University of Cagliari in Sardinia, Zertal has since opened two related sites, Mount Carmel Site 146 and Tel Assawir, to further study the Northern Sea Peoples, the Shardana and […]