Authors
S. Rebecca Martin (“Treasure in the Trash”) is assistant professor of art history at Southeast Missouri State University. She received her Ph.D. in ancient art history in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley, where she focused on the hellenization of the Levant. Between 1999 and 2006 she spent several excavation seasons at Tel Dor as an area supervisor and museum curator.
Andrew Stewart (“Treasure in the Trash”) is professor of Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology, Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies, and Curator of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He directed the UC Berkeley excavations at Tel Dor from 1986 to 2006 and is currently working on the publication of the Hellenistic sculpture from the Athenian Agora.
Charles W. Hedrick (“‘Secret Mark’: An Amazing Discovery”) is professor of religious studies and Distinguished Scholar emeritus at Southwest Missouri State University, where he taught for 24 years. His research focuses on Christian origins, and he is a member of the Jesus Seminar. His publications include The Gospel of the Savior: A New Ancient Gospel (Polebridge, 1999) and When History and Faith Collide: Studying Jesus (Hendrickson, 1999).
Helmut Koester (“‘Secret Mark’: Was Morton Smith a Great Thespian and I a Great Fool?”) is John H. Morison Research Professor of Divinity and Winn Research Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School, where he has taught since 1958. His research is primarily in the areas of New Testament interpretation, history of early Christianity, and archaeology of the early Christian period. His most recent book is From Jesus to the Gospels (Fortress Press, 2007).
Avraham Faust (“How Did Israel Become a People?”) is associate professor in the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University, where he also serves as director of the Institute of Archaeology. He specializes in the history and archaeology of Bronze and Iron Age Israel, and his innovative approach to Biblical archaeology has won acclaim for incorporating anthropological methods and perspectives. He authored the award-winning book Israel’s Ethnogenesis, and since 2006, he has directed excavations at the Iron Age site of Tel ‘Eton in the Judean hill country.