Authors

André Lemaire (“Burial Box of James the Brother of Jesus”) is directeur d’Études of the history and philology section and chairman of the Hebrew and Aramaic philology and epigraphy section at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, popularly known as the Sorbonne, in Paris. He has worked for 35 years in the fields of Northwest Semitic epigraphy, archaeology and ancient history and has published about 400 articles on those subjects. His books include Nouvelles tablettes araméennes, Le Proche-Orient Asiatique II Mésopotamie, Israël (with P. Garelli); Biblical Period Personal Seals from the Moussaieff Collection (with Robert Deutsch) and Le Monde de la Bible. His most recent articles for BAR are “‘House of David’ Restored in Moabite Inscription,” BAR 20:03, and “Royal Signature: Name of Israel’s Last King Surfaces in a Private Collection,” BAR 21:06.

Ephraim Stern (“Gorgon Excavated at Dor”) is the Moses Bernard Lauterman Family Professor of Palestinian Archaeology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the editor of The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Investigations in the Holy Land. His book, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume II: The Assyrian Babylonian, and Persian Periods (732–332 B.C.E.), is reviewed in ReViews, in this issue. A specialist in Phoenician material culture, Stern has directed excavations at Tel Dor and Tel Mevorakh, among other sites.