Authors

Zohar Amar (Balm of Gilead) is Professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University. He studies biblical plants and animals and reconstructs the daily life and landscape of ancient Israel.

Erez Ben-Yosef (David and Solomon’s Invisible Kingdom) is Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University and Director of the Central Timna Valley Project. His research focuses on biblical archaeology, ancient metallurgy, and the archaeological sciences.

Andrea M. Berlin (The Rise of the Maccabees) is the James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology and Professor of Archaeology and Religion at Boston University. Her research focuses on material culture and daily life in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East. She co-directed the Tel Kedesh excavations.

Aaron A. Burke (The Amorites and the Bible) is Professor of the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and the Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East (2021).

David Christian Clausen (Five Myths About the Apostle Paul) is an adjunct lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He wrote Meet Paul Again for the First Time (2021), and he maintains a blog on early Christianity (davidchristianclausen.com).