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A former Scientific Member of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo (IFAO) and Director of Research Emeritus at the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, Alain Zivie (“Pharaoh’s Man, ‘Abdiel: The Vizier with a Semitic Name,”) is the founding Director of the French Archaeological Mission of the Bubasteion at Saqqara (MAFB). He is also the founding President of the non-profit organization Hypogées (www.hypogees.org), whose purpose is to support the work of the MAFB. He has been a Fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 2001 and 2002, a William K. Simpson Visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo (2008), and a visiting scholar and then Associate in Harvard’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (2013–2016).
Karel van der Toorn (“Egyptian Papyrus Sheds New Light on Jewish History,”) is Professor of Religion and Society at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the Hebrew Bible in its cultural context and the role of religion in the contemporary world.
Ralph K. Hawkins (“Khirbet el-Mastarah: An Early Israelite Settlement?”) is the Chair of the Religious Studies Department at Averett University in Danville, Virginia, and Co-Director of the Jordan Valley Excavation Project. He also authored How Israel Became a People (2013).
David Ben-Shlomo (“Khirbet el-Mastarah: An Early Israelite Settlement?”) is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Ariel University and Co-Director of the Jordan Valley Excavation Project. He has published eight books and more than 80 articles related to the archaeology of the southern Levant.
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