Authors

An assistant professor of archaeology at Wheaton College, John Monson (“The New ‘Ain Dara Temple”) has participated in numerous excavations, including Lachish, Ashkelon, Giloh and Har-Tuv. He recently received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern archaeology and Hebrew Bible from Harvard University.

Lawrence E. Stager (“Jerusalem as Eden”) is the Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Semitic Museum. He also directs the Ashkelon excavations, about which he has written extensively in BAR (“When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon,” BAR 17:02, “Why Were Hundreds of Dogs Buried at Ashkelon?” BAR 17:03, and “Eroticism and Infanticide at Ashkelon,” BAR 17:04; “The Fury of Babylon: Ashkelon and the Archaeology of Destruction,” BAR 22:01).