Authors

Gwyn Davies (“The Masada Siege”) is associate professor of history at Florida International University and codirector of the Yotvata Roman Fort Project. Specializing in Roman field works, he has published numerous articles on the topic as well as the book Roman Siege Works (Stroud: Tempus, 2006).

Theodore Feder (“Parsing ‘The Parting’ Painting”) is an art historian and president and founder of Art Resource, the world’s largest photo archive of fine art, as well as president of the Artists Rights Society, both in New York City. He is author of Great Treasures of Pompeii and Herculaneum (New York: Abbeville Press, 1978).

Emanuel Tov (“Original Bible”) is J.L. Magnes Professor of Bible Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He served as editor-in-chief of the official International Dead Sea Scroll Publication for nearly 20 years, during which 32 volumes of Dead Sea Scrolls were published. Professor Tov has recently published a revised and expanded third edition of his Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (Fortress, 2011).