Authors

Mark R. Fairchild (“Why Perga? Paul’s Perilous Passage Through Pisidia”) is professor and chair of the Bible and religion department at Huntington University in Huntington, Indiana, as well as program director for the Ephesus Meeting, an academic conference at the ancient site of Ephesus in Turkey.

Oren Gutfeld (“The Emperor’s New Church on Main Street, Jerusalem”) is the excavation director at Beit Loya on behalf of the Hebrew University and a member of the final report editing team of the late Nahman Avigad’s excavations (1969–1982) in the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem. He has published Jewish Quarter Excavations in the Old City Jerusalem, Vol. V: The Cardo (Area X) and the Nea Church (Areas D and T), Final Report, among others.