Authors

Manfred Bietak (“Israelites Found in Egypt” ) is the director of the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Vienna and of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Cairo. Since 1961 he has directed more than 45 excavations in Nubia, Luxor and the eastern Nile Delta and is currently digging at Tell el-Daba (ancient Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos).

Baruch Halpern (“Eyewitness Testimony”) is a professor of ancient history and holds the Chaiken Family Chair in Jewish studies at Pennsylvania State University. A co-director of excavations at Megiddo, his several books include David’s Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King (Eerdmans, 2001).

David Jacobson (“Charles Warren vs. James Fergusson”) is a research fellow at the University of London and holds doctorates in both materials science and classical archaeology. A specialist on Herodian architecture and the history of exploration in the Holy Land, he has published widely on classical history and archaeology.