Authors

Robert Alter (“Song of Songs”) is professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to his work on modern European and American fiction, he has written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible. A member of BR’s editorial board, Alter is author of The Art of Biblical Narrative (Basic Books, 1981), Genesis: A New Translation with Commentary (Norton, 1997) and The David Story (Norton, 2000).

Kathleen Ritmeyer (“How An American Coal Miner Acquired Sacred Biblical Papyri”), along with her husband Leen, is a frequent contributor to Biblical Archaeology Review. An archaeological researcher and writer, Ritmeyer has worked at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, at Tel Akko in Israel and at sites in Ireland and Scotland. A native of Ireland, she has lived in Israel and England and has recently moved to Australia.