Thomas E. Levy (“Edom and Copper,”) is professor of Anthropology and Judaic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He specializes in the archaeology of the Levant and has done fieldwork in Jordan since 1997. Most recently, he was co-editor (with Thomas Higham, University of Oxford) of The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science.
Mohammad Najjar is director of excavations at the Department of Antiquities of Jordan and is head (in Jordan) of “Discover Islamic Art,” a project sponsored by Euromed Heritage to create a virtual museum of Islamic art on the Internet. He is author of “Regionalism During the Neolithic: An Essay on the Case for Diversity in Jordan” in Central Settlements in Neolithic Jordan, edited by Hans-Dieter Bienert, et al.
Moshe Sharon (“Islam on the Temple Mount,”) is professor of Islamic history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His publications include The Holy Land in History and Thought (editor) and the recently authored Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae.
Philip J. King (“Circumcision,”) is professor emeritus of Biblical studies at Boston College. He is also past president of the American Schools of Oriental Research, the Catholic Biblical Association and the Society of Biblical Literature—the only person to head all of the organizations. King, a leading authority on archaeology and the Hebrew Bible, is a co-author of Life in Biblical Israel (John Knox, 2001), which won the 2003 BAS Publication Award for Best Scholarly Book on Archaeology.
Michael D. Coogan (“Assessing David and Solomon,”) is a professor of religious studies at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, and editor of The New Oxford Annotated Bible, 3rd edition.
Thomas E. Levy (“Edom and Copper,”) is professor of Anthropology and Judaic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He specializes in the archaeology of the Levant and has done fieldwork in Jordan since 1997. Most recently, he was co-editor (with Thomas Higham, University of Oxford) of The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science. Mohammad Najjar is director of excavations at the Department of Antiquities of Jordan and is head (in Jordan) of “Discover Islamic Art,” a project sponsored by Euromed Heritage to create a virtual museum of Islamic art on the Internet. He is author […]
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