Authors

Thomas E. Levy (“Edom and Copper,”) is professor of Anthropology and Judaic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He specializes in the archaeology of the Levant and has done fieldwork in Jordan since 1997. Most recently, he was co-editor (with Thomas Higham, University of Oxford) of The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science.

Mohammad Najjar is director of excavations at the Department of Antiquities of Jordan and is head (in Jordan) of “Discover Islamic Art,” a project sponsored by Euromed Heritage to create a virtual museum of Islamic art on the Internet. He is author of “Regionalism During the Neolithic: An Essay on the Case for Diversity in Jordan” in Central Settlements in Neolithic Jordan, edited by Hans-Dieter Bienert, et al.

Moshe Sharon (“Islam on the Temple Mount,”) is professor of Islamic history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His publications include The Holy Land in History and Thought (editor) and the recently authored Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae.