Authors

Tristan Barako (“One: by Sea”) lectures in the department of religion at Boston University and in the history department at Salem State College. He has excavated at Ashkelon and Ekron and is publishing, thanks to a grant from the Shelby White-Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications, the Late Bronze Age site of Tel Mor.

Assaf Yasur-Landau (“Two: by Land”) is a Ph.D. candidate at Tel Aviv University, specializing in the interactions between Aegean and Near Eastern cultures in the Late Bronze and Early Iron ages.

J. Andrew Overman (“Discovering Herod’s Shrine to Augustus”) is the director of the Macalester College Omrit Excavations and is professor and chair of the classics department at Macalester. He has excavated in the Galilee at several sites from the late Hellenistic and Roman periods and co-directed the Macalester College Black Sea Project at Chersonesus, on the Crimean peninsula, from 1993 to 1998. Co-author Jack Olive has excavated in Israel for 25 seasons at such sites as Caesarea, Meiron, Sepphoris, Yodefat, Cana and Omrit. He is the field director of the Omrit excavation and an adjunct professor at Macalester College. He is considered by some to be quite good looking. Co-author Michael Nelson is the architect for the Omrit excavation and has worked extensively at the Greek sites of Pylos and Messene. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in art history and teaches at Macalester College and the College of Visual Arts, in St. Paul, Minnesota.