Amihai Mazar (“Was King Saul Impaled on the Wall of Beth Shean?”) is professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he held the Eleazar Sukenik Chair in the Archaeology of Israel until 2010. He directed the 1989–1996 excavations at Tel Beth Shean and since 1997 is director of the ongoing Tel Rehov excavations—both of which are part of the Beth Shean Valley Archaeological Project.
Konstantinos Politis (“Death at the Dead Sea”) has directed a number of archaeological projects in the Dead Sea region, including the excavation of the Monastery of Saint Lot and, most recently, the survey and excavation of sites in the Ghor es-Safi (Zoar) region. His work on the cemetery at Khirbet Qazone on the Dead Sea was described in “Who Lies Here?” BAR 25:05.
Steven Fine (“Tales from Tombstones”) is professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University in New York and also heads the university’s Center for Israel Studies. A regular contributor to BAR, he is an expert in the Jewish history of the Greco-Roman world and focuses on the relationship between ancient Jewish literature, art and archaeology.
Kalliope I. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou (“Tales from Tombstones”) is senior researcher at the Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, Greece. She specializes in Greek epigraphy of Palestine and Arabia in late antiquity. Her current research focuses on the epigraphic material from Byzantine Zoara.
Amy-Jill Levine (“What Jews (and Christians too) Should Know About the New Testament”) is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2011, she became affiliated professor at the Woolf Institute, Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations at Cambridge, UK. Most recently she co-edited The Jewish Annotated New Testament (Oxford, 2011) with Professor Marc Zvi Brettler of Brandeis University.
Amihai Mazar (“Was King Saul Impaled on the Wall of Beth Shean?”) is professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he held the Eleazar Sukenik Chair in the Archaeology of Israel until 2010. He directed the 1989–1996 excavations at Tel Beth Shean and since 1997 is director of the ongoing Tel Rehov excavations—both of which are part of the Beth Shean Valley Archaeological Project. Konstantinos Politis (“Death at the Dead Sea”) has directed a number of archaeological projects in the Dead Sea region, including the excavation of the Monastery of Saint Lot and, most recently, the survey […]
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