Authors
Elizabeth H.P. Backfish (Not Lost in Translation: Hebrew Wordplay in Greek) is Associate Professor in the School of Theology and Leadership at William Jessup University. Her recent book is Hebrew Wordplay and Septuagint Translation Technique in the Fourth Book of the Psalter (2019).
Jon Beltz (A Tale of Two Plague Gods) is a Ph.D. candidate in Assyriology at Yale University, currently writing his dissertation on the Mesopotamian underworld deity (or demon) Namtar and researching Sumerian and Akkadian literary and magical traditions.
Idan Dershowitz (The Case for Authenticity) is the Chair of Hebrew Bible and Its Exegesis at Potsdam University, a Junior Fellow in Religious Studies at Harvard, and the author of The Valediction of Moses: A Proto-Biblical Book (2021).
Jennie Ebeling (Has Archaeology Buried the Bible?) is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Evansville. Her research focuses on ancient food technologies and women in Canaan and ancient Israel. She co-directed the Jezreel Expedition.
Ronald S. Hendel (The Case for Forgery) is the Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on textual criticism, the Hebrew Bible, and ancient Near Eastern religion.
Andrew Lawler (Who Built the Tomb of the Kings?) is an award-winning journalist and writer. His latest book, Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City (2021), tells stories of archaeological digs at Jerusalem’s sacred sites set against the backdrop of the city’s politics and competing ideologies.
Carol Meyers (Why We Dig The Aims of Archaeology) is the Mary Grace Wilson Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at Duke University. She co-directed excavations at Sepphoris and Nabratein in northern Israel.
Matthieu Richelle (The Case for Forgery) is Professor of Old Testament at the Université Catholique de Louvain, in Belgium. His most recent book is The Bible and Archaeology (2018).
Kerry M. Sonia (Caring for the Dead in Ancient Israel) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Colby College. She specializes in Hebrew Bible and Israelite religion in their ancient Near Eastern context.
James D. Tabor (The Case for Authenticity) is Professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and co-director of the Mount Zion Archaeological Project in Jerusalem.
Mark Wilson (The Wine of Izal) is the Director of the Asia Minor Research Center in Antalya, Turkey, and Associate Professor Extraordinary of New Testament at Stellenbosch University. He also leads study tours for BAS.
Ben Witherington III (Paul of Arabia? The Apostle’s Early Adventures) is the Amos Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky and on the doctoral faculty at St. Andrews University, Scotland. He wrote Paul of Arabia (2020) with Jason A. Myers.