Authors
“Inside the Huqoq Synagogue”: Jodi Magness is the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She directs the Huqoq Excavation Project. Shua Kisilevitz of the Israel Antiquities Authority serves as the Assistant Director of the Huqoq Excavation Project. Matthew Grey is Associate Professor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University and an area supervisor on the Huqoq excavations. His research interests include synagogues, Galilean villages, and Jewish society during the Roman period. Dennis Mizzi is a Senior Lecturer in Hebrew and Ancient Judaism in the Department of Oriental Studies and an associate member of the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Malta, as well as area supervisor at Huqoq. (For Karen Britt and Ra‘anan Boustan, see below.)
“Artistic Influences in Synagogue Mosaics: Putting the Huqoq Synagogue in Context”: Karen Britt serves as the mosaic specialist at the Huqoq Excavation Project. She is a Senior Scholar in Visual Culture at Western Carolina University. Ra‘anan Boustan is a Research Scholar in Judaic Studies at Princeton University and the Huqoq Excavation Project’s site historian.
“From Pets to Physicians: Dogs in the Biblical World”: Justin David Strong defends his Ph.D. thesis in the Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity program at the University of Notre Dame in June (2019). His dissertation examines Biblical parables against the background of the ancient fable.
“Who Were the Assyrians?”: Christopher B. Hays is the D. Wilson Moore Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He is the author of The Origins of Isaiah 24–27: Josiah’s Festival Scroll for the Fall of Assyria (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019).