Authors

Steven Fine (“The Temple Menorah”), the Jewish Foundation Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati, specializes in Jewish history in late antiquity. He is the author of This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of the Synagogue During the Greco-Roman Period and Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue: Cultural Interaction During the Greco-Roman Period. His Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World won the Society of Architectural Historians’ prize for excellence in exhibit catalogues.

David Ussishkin (“Big City, Few People”) recently retired from Tel Aviv University’s archaeology department. His distinguished career has not come to an end, however: He continues as a co-director of the Megiddo excavation. In addition to his decades-long work at Lachish, Ussishkin has dug at Jezreel and at Betar and he has surveyed the Judean necropolis at Silwan, just east of Jerusalem.