Authors

Trude Dothan (“Cultural Crossroads”) recently received the coveted Israel Prize for archaeology, in recognition for her many years of excavating (at Deir el-Balah, Hazor and Qasile) and teaching (at Hebrew University, Princeton, New York University, Brown University and the University of California at Berkeley). One of the world’s leading authorities on the Philistines, Dothan is the author of The Philistines and Their Material Culture (1982) and, with her husband, Moshe, of People of the Sea (Macmillan, 1992).

Avraham Biran (“Sacred Spaces”) is the director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. Formerly Israel’s Director of Antiquities and Museums, he has held many government positions and has directed numerous excavations, including Anathoth, Ira, Aroer and the ancient synagogue of Yesud Hamaalah.