Authors

Rami Arav and Richard A. Freund (“Bethsaida Rediscovered”), codirectors of the Bethsaida Excavations Project, have just completed the second volume of collected essays on their dig: Bethsaida—A City by the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee (Kirksville, MO: Truman State Univ. Press). Arav has recently become a full professor of international studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Freund, who taught in the university’s Department of Philosophy and Religion since 1989, has just been named director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, Connecticut.

Coauthor John F. Shroder, Jr., is a professor of geology and long-time chair of the Department of Geography and Geology at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. A member of the editorial board of Geomorphology, Shroder has recently written a book on the Himalayas.