Authors

Longtime codirectors of excavations at Bethsaida, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, Rami Arav and Richard Freund (“Return to the Cave of Letters”) have recently extended their teamwork to the Cave of Letters in the Judean Desert. Arav is professor of international studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Freund, who taught in the university’s Department of Philosophy and Religion throughout the 1990s, has recently moved to the University of Hartford, where he is director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. Their article on Bethsaida appeared in the January/February 2000 issue of BAR (“Bethsaida Rediscovered,” BAR 26:01).

Mordechai Cogan (“Sennacherib’s Siege of Jerusalem”) is professor of Biblical history in the Department of Jewish History at Hebrew University, in Jerusalem. He coauthored the commentary on 2 Kings in the highly regarded Anchor Bible series, published by Doubleday; his commentary on 1 Kings is slated to appear next summer.