Authors

Yizhar Hirschfeld (“A Country Gentleman’s Estate”) is a professor of classical archaeology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, where he received his Ph.D. in archaeology in 1987. His major excavations include the Roman baths of Hammat Gader, Ramat Hanadiv, several monasteries in the Judean desert, and Ein Gedi. His most recent book is Qumran in Context (Hendrickson, 2004).

William W. Hallo (“Divination in Ancient Babylonia”) is professor emeritus of Assyriology and Sumerology at Yale University and the former curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection.