Zuzana Chovanec (Arch-Tech: Slumbering Dreams: Testing for Ancient Opium) is a research associate at the State University of New York at Albany. Her research focuses on organic residue analysis and the history of the opium poppy and other plants used in the eastern Mediterranean.
Rangar Cline (Classical Corner: The Power of Love in Roman Magic) is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is a historian and archaeologist who specializes in the Greek, Roman, and late antique Mediterranean worlds.
William G. Dever (How the Ten Tribes of Israel Were Lost) is Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He directed excavations at Gezer from 1966 to 1971 and is a prior director of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.
Yitzhaq Feder (Getting Down and Dirty with Impurity) is a lecturer in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel. His research synthesizes the traditional philological study of ancient texts with the cognitive science of religions.
Christopher A. Frilingos (Christianity’s First Family) is Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. He writes and teaches about biblical literature and early Christianity.
Igor Kreimerman (Projecting Prestige: Egyptian Statues from Canaanite Hazor) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a specialist in the Bronze and Iron Age archaeology of Israel and directs the Selz Foundation Hazor Excavations.
Christian Locatell (Symbols of the Goddess) is a research associate in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge and Peterhouse. His research focuses on ancient languages, biblical archaeology, and theology.
Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent (Book Review: Encountering Syriac Christianity) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Theology at Marquette University. She is an expert in Syriac studies and early Christianity, with a special interest in hagiography.
Jordan J. Ryan (The Life of Jesus Written in Stone) is Associate Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Illinois. His research focuses on ancient synagogues and churches as architectural artifacts of early Judaism and Christianity.
Elizabeth Schrader Polczer (The Mystery of Mary and Martha) is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Villanova University. Her studies focus on textual criticism, Mary Magdalene, and the Gospel of John.
K. Lawson Younger (Milestone: Alan Millard (1937–2024)) is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Semitic Languages, and Ancient Near Eastern History at Trinity International University’s Divinity School. His book A Political History of the Arameans (SBL Press, 2016) won a 2017 BAS Publication Award.
Zuzana Chovanec (Arch-Tech: Slumbering Dreams: Testing for Ancient Opium) is a research associate at the State University of New York at Albany. Her research focuses on organic residue analysis and the history of the opium poppy and other plants used in the eastern Mediterranean. Rangar Cline (Classical Corner: The Power of Love in Roman Magic) is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is a historian and archaeologist who specializes in the Greek, Roman, and late antique Mediterranean worlds. William G. Dever (How the Ten Tribes of Israel Were Lost) is Professor Emeritus […]