A Benedictine monk, Bargil Pixner (“Jerusalem’s Essene Gateway”) lives in the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion, where he teaches Biblical archaeology. He is the co-author, with George Hintilian, of The Glory of Bethlehem (Jerusalem Publishing House, 1981). In a previous BAR article, “Church of the Apostles Found on Mt. Zion,”BAR 16:03, Pixner identified the traditional tomb of David as the site of a first-century Judeo-Christian synagogue.
Fred Reiner (“Tracking the Shapira Case”) is the rabbi at Temple Sinai in Washington, D.C. His report on “C.D. Ginsburg and the Shapira Affair” appeared in the British Library Journal (Spring 1995). Reiner has also taught at Howard University Divinity School in Washington.
P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. (“Why All the Fuss?”), is William Foxwell Albright Professor of Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University; his most recent publication is Ancient Inscriptions: Voices from the Biblical World (Biblical Archaeology Society, 1996).
Avner Raban (“Stop the Charade”) doesn’t mind when people say he’s all wet. As codirector of the dig at Caesarea, Raban is responsible for the underwater portion of the excavations. He is a senior lecturer at, and a past chairman of, the Recanati Center for Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa. Raban is also a founding member of the Undersea Exploration Society of Israel.
Victor Hurowitz is associate professor of Biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beer-Sheva, Israel. He has written numerous articles for Bible Review, including “Inside Solomon’s Temple,”BR 10:02; and “Did King Solomon Violate the Second Commandment?”BR 10:05.
A Benedictine monk, Bargil Pixner (“Jerusalem’s Essene Gateway”) lives in the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion, where he teaches Biblical archaeology. He is the co-author, with George Hintilian, of The Glory of Bethlehem (Jerusalem Publishing House, 1981). In a previous BAR article, “Church of the Apostles Found on Mt. Zion,” BAR 16:03, Pixner identified the traditional tomb of David as the site of a first-century Judeo-Christian synagogue. Fred Reiner (“Tracking the Shapira Case”) is the rabbi at Temple Sinai in Washington, D.C. His report on “C.D. Ginsburg and the Shapira Affair” appeared in the British Library Journal (Spring 1995). […]
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