Authors

Adela Yarbro Collins (“Satan’s Throne,”) is the Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at the Yale University Divinity School. She is the author of Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and christian Apocalypticism and is working on a commentary on the Gospel of Mark for the Hermeneia commentary series.

Arthur Segal (“The Spade Hits Sussita,”) is a professor in the department of archaeology and project director of the Hippos-Sussita Excavations under the auspices of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa. His assistant, Michael Eisenberg, is a co-author on their latest publication Hippos-Sussita: Fifth Season of Excavations and Summary of All Five Seasons (2000–2004) (University of Haifa, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, 2004).