Authors

Volkmar Fritz (“Israelites and Canaanites: You Can Tell Them Apart”) is a professor of Old Testament studies at the University of Giessen in Germany. He is director of excavations at Kinneret and former codirector of excavations at Tel Masos in the Negev and is the author of The City in Ancient Israel.

Shlomo Bunimovitz (“Ideology in Stone: Understanding the Four-Room House”) is a senior lecturer in archaeology and ancient Near Eastern studies at Tel Aviv University and codirector of excavations at Tell Beth-Shemesh. He has published on socio-cultural change in Palestine during the Bronze and Iron Ages as well as on interpretation in Biblical archaeology.

Avraham Faust (“Ideology in Stone: Understanding the Four-Room House”) is an instructor at the department of Land of Israel Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. During this past academic year he has been a visiting Fulbright scholar at Harvard University.

Robert Deutsch (“Lasting Impressions: New Bullae Reveal Egyptian-Style Emblems on Judah’s Royal Seals”) teaches epigraphy at the University of Haifa and is the author of Messages from the Past and, with André Lemaire, of Biblical Period Personal Seals in the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection.