Authors

Benjamin Arubas (“Archaeologists on Crutches”) is pursuing his doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was codirector of the Beth Shean Archaeological Project with Yoram Tsafrir.

Shay Bar (“Archaeologists on Crutches”) is a Research Fellow at the Zinmin Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa. He is currently heading excavations at Tel Esur, Tel Shiqmona, the Fazael Valley Protohistoric Project and the Manasseh Hill Country Survey. He worked with Adam Zertal for more than 15 years.

Ralph K. Hawkins (“Israelite Footprints—Has Adam Zertal Found the Biblical Altar on Mt. Ebal and the Footprints of the Israelites Settling the Promised Land?”) is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Averett University in Danville, Virginia, and the author of The Iron Age I Structure on Mt. Ebal: Excavation and Interpretation (2012).