Authors

Elie Wiesel inaugurates a new series on supporting roles in the Bible with a consideration of the much-loathed Serpent (see “Supporting Roles: The Serpent”). Wiesel is the author of more than 30 novels, plays and profiles of biblical figures. In 1986 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his lifelong human rights efforts.

Thousands of tourists have relied on Jerome Murphy-O’Connor and his meticulous travel guide, The Holy Land: An Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700 (Oxford, 1992), to direct them to biblical sites throughout Israel. His desire to determine the location of the Roman temple in Jerusalem (see “Where Was the Capitol in Roman Jerusalem?”) arose while preparing for a class on the city’s topography—a standard course offering for this professor of New Testament and intertestamental literature. He has taught at the École Biblique et Archéologique in Jerusalem for 30 years.