Authors - The BAS Library

Daniel Bodi (Biblical Profile: Abishag: Bedwarmer or Bureaucrat?) is Professor of History of Religions of Antiquity at the Sorbonne University in Paris. He has written several books on King David’s wives, including Abishag as Administrator of King David’s Household (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2021).

Eric H. Cline (Rising from the Ashes: Israel and the Dawn of the Iron Age) is Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at George Washington University and the author of several books, including After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Princeton Univ. Press, 2024).

Robert Edwards (Antioch’s Silent Guardians) is Lecturer in Christian Thought and History and Director of Postgraduate Studies at Brisbane School of Theology in Australia, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Queensland.

Matthew J. Grey (Book Review: Excavating the Land of Jesus) is Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture and an affiliate faculty member of the Ancient Near Eastern Studies program at Brigham Young University.

Emma Maayan-Fanar (Finding Jesus: Byzantine Paintings at Shivta) is a senior lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Steven Ortiz (Solomon’s Powerplay: Gezer’s Royal Complex Confirmed) is Director of the Lanier Center for Archaeology at Lipscomb University. He co-directed the Tel Gezer Excavation Project.

Konstantinos Politis (Site-Seeing: The Land of Lot) is an archaeologist of the eastern Mediterranean lands ranging from prehistory to Ottoman times. He focuses on late antiquity to the early medieval period, particularly in Jordan and Syria.

Maggie L. Popkin (Classical Corner: Precious Memories: Souvenirs of the Roman Empire) is Associate Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University. She specializes in ancient Roman art and architecture.

Yotam Tepper (Finding Jesus: Byzantine Paintings at Shivta) is an academic supervisor and research archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority and a research fellow at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Craig W. Tyson (Into the Heart of Moab: Excavations at Khirbet Balu‘a) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at D’Youville University. He specializes in the Hebrew Bible and the history and archaeology of the southern Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages.

Ben Witherington III (Finding Paul’s Weakness) is Amos Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary and a professor emeritus at St. Andrews University in Scotland.

Samuel Wolff (Solomon’s Powerplay: Gezer’s Royal Complex Confirmed) is a retired archaeologist and ceramicist with the Israel Antiquities Authority. He co-directed the Tel Gezer Excavation Project.

MLA Citation

“Authors,” Biblical Archaeology Review 50.2 (2024): 71.