Martin Abegg, Jr., (“Hershel’s Crusade No. 1: He Who Freed the Dead Sea Scrolls,”) is the Ben Zion Wacholder Professor Emeritus of Dead Sea Scroll Studies and founding co-director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in British Columbia. He collaborated with Michael Wise and Edward Cook on The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation (1996; revised edition 2005) and Peter Flint and Eugene Ulrich on The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (1999).
Ada Yardeni (“Hershel’s Crusade No. 3: Forgeries and Unprovenanced Artifacts,”) is an epigrapher on the Faculty of Humanities at the Institute of Arts and Letters of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She wrote The Book of Hebrew Script: History, Palaeography, Script Styles, Calligraphy & Design (London: The British Library, 2002), which is recognized as the authoritative text on the subject.
Eilat Mazar (“Is This the Prophet Isaiah’s Signature?”) of the Hebrew University’s Institute of Archaeology has been the Director of the Ophel excavations since 2009 and was the Director of the City of David excavations from 2005 to 2008. She also has been publishing the final report of the excavations south of the Temple Mount led by her late grandfather Benjamin Mazar.
Susan Laden (“Raising the BAR: The History of the Biblical Archaeology Society,”) is the Publisher and President of the Biblical Archaeology Society.
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